Since questions about calling C from D seem to be popular today,
I thought I would throw this one out there.
I am trying to call a C function which takes as parameters
several arrays of doubles. It is valid to have some arrays
passed a NULL pointers in the C code.
To call this from D I've come up with the following, but it seems
like a bit of a hack.
double[] x1 = [ 2.4, 3.7, 9.7, 4.5 ];
double[] y1 = [ 2.4, 9.8, 9.1, 3.4 ];
double[] empty;
SHPObject*[] shape_ptrs;
shape_ptrs ~= SHPCreateSimpleObject( SHPT_POLYGON,
to!int(x1.length),
x1.ptr, y1.ptr, empty.ptr );
It should be clear what is going on. A POLYGON is defined as a
set of
points (provided as arrays of doubles), with X,Y and optional Z
coordinates.
In this case I want a 2D polygon, so I want the final Z array to
be
empty.
I wanted to just write 0 as the final parameter, but that didn't
work, so
I tried to!(double*)(0), and that didn't make the compiler happy
either.
I guess using the empty.ptr bit makes sense, in that the final
array is meant to be empty, so pass it a pointer to an empty
array. But it seems a bit hackish that I need to declare an
additional empty array just to call this function.
Is there an accepted 'proper' way of passing NULL pointers to C
functions from D?
