On 21-09-2011 10:01, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
Hello, my dear, beloved D community.
I've been reading literally all discussions on D.puremagic.com
<http://D.puremagic.com> for about a month now and I'm deeply concerned
with my favorite language and it's reference compiler.
So, for starters, i decided to add a very useful (in my opinion) module
to phobos: etc.c.compat.
Here's the pull request:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/265
This module is supposed to help people develop bindings for C libraries,
by providing information language-specific information, depending on
certain compiler, processor architecture, operating system, etc.
Currently there are only aliases for C built-in types, which are static
if-ed to have the correct size for the respective C compilers.
It's well-documented and waits to be enhanced with more accurate
compile-time branching and additional useful information to make binding
C code even easier.
If we get a good enough C compatibility module, we'll be able to rapidly
bind all major and frequently-used libraries and include them in phobos.
This will also do a great job of promoting D as a good language to adopt
for serious projects, because it's standard library will be very rich
and common usage won't require the programmer to resort to anything
besides phobos.
Any comments would be much appreciated.
Hi,
You should probably fix the enum member names to use camelCase (though
in the case of 'x86_64', I think the underscore is acceptable).
- Alex
