On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 18:28:50 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
If you already have a piece of memory, it is trivial to convert
it to a slice in D:
auto slice = existing_pointer[0 .. number_of_elements];
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/pointers.html#ix_pointers.slice%20from%20pointer
The opera
On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 18:20:07 UTC, pineapple wrote:
I'd like to use fread and fwrite in place of File.rawRead and
File.rawWrite which force the creation of an array where I'd
rather specify a buffer location and length.
D's arrays *are* just buffer locations and lengths with a few
On 10/22/2015 11:20 AM, pineapple wrote:
> I'd like to use fread and fwrite in place of File.rawRead and
> File.rawWrite which force the creation of an array where I'd rather
> specify a buffer location and length.
Would you not create that buffer? :)
If you already have a piece of memory, it is
Answered my own question: Turns out File.getFP() does exactly
what I needed
I'd like to use fread and fwrite in place of File.rawRead and
File.rawWrite which force the creation of an array where I'd
rather specify a buffer location and length. I'd like to do this
using a File object but the handle for the C stream is a private
member and I can't find any way to access
