Am 21.07.2014 06:07, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
"Daniel Gibson" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
* passing stuff to the function is done as C expects it (not done,
also: are there other cases than the static array one that are
different?)
Dynamic arrays.
D used to allow passing static and dynamic arrays to C varargs with no
problems. This lead to nasty segfaults, especially with this code:
printf("Hello %s\n", "segfault");
If the compiler did the right thing for extern (C) functions (i.e.
implicitly passing "segfault" by reference), this shouldn't cause a
segfault.
which looks perfectly valid in D but certainly isn't. What you actually
meant to pass is up to you to specify. It would not make a lot of sense
for C functions to have a different set of implicit conversion rules to
other functions.
* Disallowing template arguments (because how would I declare and call
that function in C?) (not done)
This is probably worth reporting, I doubt it works correctly.
* /Maybe/ disallowing types as arguments/return types that are not
supported by C (D classes; not done)?
(OTOH, one the C side one could just handle them as void* and pass
instances around opaquely)
Yes, this is why they are not disallowed. This is just too damn useful.
printf("Pointer: %p\n", new Class());
Well, that printf("%s", "asdf"); doesn't work (really?) and that I have
to pass static arrays arr.ptr in varargs, is much more
surprising/unexpected than having to casts class objects to void* when
passing them to a C function.
But still, it probably is useful to have type checking on the D side
even when just treating them as void* on the C side.
Cheers,
Daniel
