Re: Download a file into array (using std.net.curl.download)

2021-07-07 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 07/07/2021 11:54 PM, z wrote: On Wednesday, 7 July 2021 at 10:27:47 UTC, notna wrote: On Windows: ``` ::> dmd curl_get.d ::> .\curl_get.exe object.Error@(0): Access Violation 0x0283CA66 0x0041DE8D 0x004023A2 0x00402308 0x00414D33 0x00414CAD 0x00414B48 0x0040D41F

Re: Unittests not firing?

2021-06-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
rdmd -main -unittest file.d ```d import std.stdio; unittest { writeln("first"); } unittest { writeln("second"); assert(0); } ``` Output: ``` first second onlineapp.d(11): [unittest] unittest failure 1/1 modules FAILED unittests ``` The first assert to execute should kill the

Re: how to enable safeD ? dmd.conf ? dmd switch ?

2021-06-07 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 08/06/2021 2:47 PM, someone wrote: https://dlang.org/articles/safed.html https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html#switches http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/functions_more.html Neither man dmd nor man dmd.conf appear to have a related/switch setting. Does it means safeD is achieved by placing @safe

Re: LDC 1.27.0-beta1

2021-06-05 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/06/2021 4:53 AM, kinke wrote: - Greatly improved DLL support on Windows, including bundled druntime and Phobos DLLs, making it almost as easy as on Posix. Nicee!

Re: From the D Blog: Driving with D

2021-06-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 04/06/2021 8:50 PM, Max Samukha wrote: On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 11:57:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Dylan Graham writes about his experience using D in a microcontroller project and why he chose it. Does anyone know of any similar projects using D? I don't. This may well be the first time

Re: LWDR (Light Weight D Runtime) for Microcontrollers v0.2.3

2021-05-30 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 31/05/2021 1:05 PM, Dylan Graham wrote: I haven't put any thought into the license. Since LWDR is derived from DRuntime, I assume I'll have to use its license. If not, I'd like to go with something permissive like MIT. Boost is permissive.

Re: GCC 11.1 Released

2021-05-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/05/2021 1:04 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:   - New aliases have been added to gcc.attributes for compatibility with ldc.attributes. mm compact, very nice!

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-24 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25/05/2021 3:39 AM, zjh wrote: use chrome ,cannot open the DEV. press `F12` of no use. `Alt+U`of no use. continue rotating the small circle.You can do nothing. There is something seriously wrong with your install then. It isn't related to the website itself.

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-24 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Use the dev tools, network + performance tabs could be very useful information for debugging this.

Re: Can rdmd (under Windows 10) use linker other than Optlink?

2021-05-14 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 15/05/2021 9:42 AM, DLearner wrote: I am getting 'Error 42: Symbol Undefined' while testing some (fairly) complex imports. There was a reference in January to an Optlink bug that seemed like it could be responsible. If rdmd can use another linker (and one was recommended), I might be

Re: Thread local variables in betterC

2021-05-09 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 10/05/2021 6:41 AM, Blatnik wrote: Do thread local variables work in -betterC? Or maybe it's better to ask are they _supposed_ to work in -betterC? No. It is tied to druntime. I.e. on Linux it calls __tls_get_addr to get the address.

Re: dlang opengl / gl / glu /glut library.

2021-04-21 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 22/04/2021 7:51 AM, Alain De Vos wrote: import bindc.opengl; bindbc

Re: dub commands do not run correctly.

2021-04-10 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
dub run dfmt -- ./app.d You passed "./app.d" to dub, not dfmt.

Re: dub commands do not run correctly.

2021-04-10 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 10/04/2021 11:44 PM, Alain De Vos wrote: In order to run commands correctly I have to put soft links : I.e. dfmt -> /home/x/.dub/packages/dfmt-0.13.4/dfmt/bin/dfmt or, dscanner -> /home/x/.dub/packages/dscanner-0.11.0/dscanner/bin/dscanner Then ./dfmt or ./dscanner run fine. I use freebsd

Re: Extern/scope issue

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 04/04/2021 2:48 AM, DLearner wrote: On Saturday, 3 April 2021 at 13:38:25 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/04/2021 2:34 AM, DLearner wrote: However, changing extern(C) to extern(D) causes linker failures. To me, that is bizarre. extern(D) sets the ABI AND mangling. D mangling

Re: Extern/scope issue

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 04/04/2021 2:34 AM, DLearner wrote: However, changing extern(C) to extern(D) causes linker failures. To me, that is bizarre. extern(D) sets the ABI AND mangling. D mangling incorporates things like the module name.

Re: Extern/scope issue

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
--- main.d module main; extern(C) __gshared int foo; import std; void main() { import foo : func; func; writeln(foo); } --- foo.d module foo; extern extern(C) __gshared int foo; void func() { foo++; } The __gshared is irrelevant to it working between modules, but it is

Re: Extern/scope issue

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 03/04/2021 11:17 PM, DLearner wrote: On Saturday, 3 April 2021 at 10:05:45 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 03/04/2021 11:01 PM, DLearner wrote: [...] TLS variable with D mangling, not a c global.  [...] That is a regular variable. Setting the calling convention/mangling like that

Re: Extern/scope issue

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 03/04/2021 11:01 PM, DLearner wrote: 'Testmain' imports module 'testmod'. Both are shown below. I expected 1,1,2,2. I got 1,0,2,1 - which speaks to scope/extern misunderstanding Any ideas? Best regards Testmain: int xvar; TLS variable with D mangling, not a c global. import testmod;

Re: Deprecation message when assigning Nullable values to an associative array.

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 03/04/2021 10:58 PM, rikki cattermole wrote: Nullable has an alias this which has been deprecated. It is due for removal (the alias this). You can remove it manually from your copy of phobos source. Otherwise you'll just have to wait until it is removed upstream. (deprecation are not

Re: Deprecation message when assigning Nullable values to an associative array.

2021-04-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Nullable has an alias this which has been deprecated. It is due for removal (the alias this). You can remove it manually from your copy of phobos source. Otherwise you'll just have to wait until it is removed upstream. (deprecation are not errors, so you can ignore them).

Re: Check attribute against value

2021-04-02 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
"Whether the attributes are values or types is up to the user, and whether later attributes accumulate or override earlier ones is also up to how the user interprets them." This doesn't explain it well, but you were adding types as attributes on to those symbols. Not struct instances.

Re: what exactly is string length?

2021-04-01 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 02/04/2021 6:10 PM, Computermatronic wrote: On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 05:02:52 UTC, mw wrote: Ahh, I got what I see (from writeln) is not what get string here ;-) And I just tried: string t = text("head-", strip(s), "-tail"); It's the same behavior. So how can I trim the leading &

Re: what exactly is string length?

2021-04-01 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 02/04/2021 5:51 PM, mw wrote: Then how can I construct `t`? to make this assertion true:    assert(t == "head-abc-tail");  // failed! Slice it. string t = text("head-", s[0 .. 3], "-tail"); http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/slices.html

Re: what exactly is string length?

2021-04-01 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 02/04/2021 5:38 PM, mw wrote: On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 04:36:01 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 02/04/2021 5:32 PM, mw wrote: --- import std; import std.conv : text; void main() {     char[6] s;     s = "abc";     writeln(s, s.length);  // abc6, ok it's the static array's length    

Re: what exactly is string length?

2021-04-01 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 02/04/2021 5:32 PM, mw wrote: --- import std; import std.conv : text; void main() {    char[6] s;    s = "abc";    writeln(s, s.length);  // abc6, ok it's the static array's length    string t = text("head-", s, "-tail");    writeln(t, t.length);  // head-abc-tail16, why? assert(t[9]

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-30 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 31/03/2021 7:28 AM, Chris Piker wrote: Since I'm not orphaning packages soon and since physical science packages have a relatively small user base, it sounds like interaction with the dlang-community group is not recommended at this time. It is neither not recommended, nor recommended.

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 30/03/2021 3:55 PM, James Blachly wrote: Does this [hiding to non org members] really help D's visibility and adoption? What sorts of things are discussed that do not benefit from openness? For example, I am a bona fide scientist using Dlang, but had no idea dlang-science was even an active

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-28 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 29/03/2021 12:16 PM, Chris Piker wrote: On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 04:06:57 UTC, mw wrote: On Friday, 26 March 2021 at 21:55:18 UTC, Chris Piker wrote: Let's discuss it here: https://github.com/orgs/dlang-community/teams/science/discussions @wilzbach is the maintainer of the group.

Re: Beerconf March 2021

2021-03-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/03/2021 2:45 PM, Dylan Graham wrote: I might join some time after work (late afternoon) AEST if you guys will still be on. I have some progress updates on the D powered automatic gearbox system and a new project I've got in the works. Ah huh an aussie. I'll be on in the AM from CHCH

Re: running a d compiler on the Mac Mini with an M1 chip

2021-03-26 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 27/03/2021 10:51 AM, dan wrote: Are there any d compilers that run natively on the Mac Mini with an M1 chip? If so, does anybody here have any experience with them that can be shared? If not, and your machine is a mac mini, how would you go about programming in d on it? TIA for any

Re: can't link a code, is it a bug or my fault?

2021-03-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Try it with: -allinst It may just be deciding a template instance isn't required.

Re: Is it possible to suppress standard lib and dlang symbols in dylib (macos)

2021-03-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Pipe it to grep should work | grep -v "__D2"

Re: How to handle exceptions right?

2021-03-08 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/socket.d#L190 Might be of some use to you

Re: Unexpected threads observed before main()

2021-03-01 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 01/03/2021 8:02 PM, Keivan Shah wrote: If possible, Can you also help me understand that why are the threads not despawned once the GC is done collecting in this example? There was a PR about this ages ago. But one thing to consider is that keeping threads around not doing anything

Re: Unexpected threads observed before main()

2021-02-28 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Do you still get them when you call your app like this? ./app --DRT-gcopt=parallel:0

Re: How can I make this work?

2021-02-28 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 28/02/2021 11:05 PM, Max Haughton wrote: Do the windows APIs expect the length in memory rather than as a parameter? This sounds like its being sent via a user field to be passed to a callback. I.e. event loop for a window. In this sort of case you only get one parameter on the callback

Re: How can I make this work?

2021-02-28 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 28/02/2021 8:05 PM, Jack wrote: int[] arr = [1, 2, 3]; size_t l = cast(size_t)arr.ptr; Okay, so far so good int[] a = cast(int[]) cast(void*) l; Umm, you haven't specified a length? int[] a = (cast(int*)l)[0 .. 3]; If the callback is being called (in effect under the current stack

Re: Class instance alignment

2021-02-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 20/02/2021 8:13 PM, tsbockman wrote: Well, that's just another reason not to use the GC for my current project, then: I'm using 256-bit AVX vectors extensively. You can still use the GC. You just can't use it to allocate the classes you care about.

Re: Windows Bindings v1.0

2021-02-16 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 17/02/2021 9:45 AM, Rumbu wrote: On Tuesday, 16 February 2021 at 08:53:06 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: All of the symbols and modules need to be documented so that the documentation generators will generate documentation for them. Sincerely, I doubt that it's a good idea to duplicate

Re: Windows Bindings v1.0

2021-02-16 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 16/02/2021 9:45 PM, Rumbu wrote: The D Windows SDK projection reached first version. Generated bindings were compiled succesfully. https://github.com/rumbu13/windows-d Destroy! All of the symbols and modules need to be documented so that the documentation generators will generate

Re: Are there any containers that go with allocators?

2021-02-09 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://github.com/dlang-community/containers It uses the older design for allocators (dependency).

Re: Minimize GC memory footprint

2021-02-06 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 07/02/2021 4:22 AM, frame wrote: On Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 13:30:03 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Okay, its still seeing something is alive then. That's why I used the scope guard. I know it shouldn't have any effect but I want to give the GC an extra hint ;) The GC shouldn't be

Re: Minimize GC memory footprint

2021-02-06 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 07/02/2021 12:38 AM, Siemargl wrote: On Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 11:20:18 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 09:42:38 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 06/02/2021 3:32 PM, frame wrote:  [...] This won't do anything.  [...] Don't forget to stdout.flush; Otherwise

Re: Minimize GC memory footprint

2021-02-06 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 06/02/2021 3:32 PM, frame wrote: On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 22:46:05 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: ?? Do you mean no collections happen? 32bit GC should just work. No, it doesn't - this code fails on memory allocation and works fine with -m64 switch: import std.stdio; import

Re: core.atomic for ldc.

2021-01-31 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
The only difference between dmd, ldc and gdc (in effect) is the backend. While druntime and Phobos will be patched for other platform targets, over all its the same library. The same goes for core.atomic. You should not need to know that it has been patched. If you can call it and it gives

Re: Initializing D runtime and executing module and TLS ctors for D libraries

2021-01-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 28/01/2021 1:16 PM, tsbockman wrote: The documentation build on dlang.org is broken. Check the source code or Adam D. Ruppe's dpldocs.info for the complete documentation: http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/core.thread.osthread.html Fixed: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21309

Re: which free operating systems have a gtkd package?

2021-01-22 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://d-apt.sourceforge.io/ Or you could use dub and not worry about where its installed. https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/wiki/Hello-World-Example-on-Ubuntu-19.10-(Linux)

Re: reference counting resources but NOT memory

2021-01-16 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
What you are describing sounds like regular reference counting. All resources (i.e. windows) are pinned somewhere in memory. Its just that you have to use special API's to destroy them rather than free.

Re: How to debug D on Linux

2021-01-13 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 13:47:55 UTC, Roguish wrote: On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 13:30:48 UTC, Roguish wrote: Anything else I need to know when debugging on Linux, without an IDE? One specific question I have is: what's the difference between -g and -debug and -d-debug? From

Re: properly passing strings to functions? (C++ vs D)

2021-01-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 12/01/2021 3:12 AM, zack wrote: A beginner question: How to pass strings properly to functions in D? Is there any allocation going on if just use a function as "myPrint"? In C++ I have often seen calls where one just passes a reference/const reference to a string to avoid allocation. C++:

Re: D string to C struct fixed-size array

2021-01-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Your definition of Image is probably wrong. You may have missed a pointer (8 bytes).

Re: D string to C struct fixed-size array

2021-01-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
import std; void main() { int[] a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; int[3] b; b[0 .. 3] = a[1 .. 4]; b.writeln; } Same principle, just remember to null terminate after slicing your dynamic array and assigning it to your static array.

Re: Range of dub package versions

2020-12-28 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
$ dub upgrade https://dub.pm/commandline.html#upgrade dub.selections.json hasn't been deleted/upgraded so the versions would have gotten pinned to a known good state. Unless you change the version invalidating it, it most likely won't upgrade by itself.

Re: uncaught exceptions: stack trace truncated at NUL char

2020-12-13 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 14/12/2020 9:56 AM, kdevel wrote: On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 20:25:06 UTC, KapyoniK wrote: Is it really a bug ? \0 truncates the string, as mentionned on this page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string I thought the D runtime is written in D (with D strings)?!?

Re: MonoTimeImpl!(ClockType.normal) failed to get the frequency of the system's monotonic clock.

2020-12-13 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Did you initialize the D runtime before you called the D code? (assuming C main).

Re: Why can I call a function with mismatched parameter type?

2020-12-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 12/12/2020 12:32 AM, rikki cattermole wrote: Further, when the parameter name is not provided it will infer based upon what is passed in. In effect it is templated. What I meant was: the type is inferred if you only provide a single identifier in a parameter.

Re: Why can I call a function with mismatched parameter type?

2020-12-11 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
string is not a built in type. It is an alias defined by druntime. https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/object.d#L35 int on the other hand is defined by the compiler. It understands it. Further, when the parameter name is not provided it will infer based upon what is passed in.

Re: Pass enum variable as const ref arg

2020-12-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 05/12/2020 2:42 AM, Andrey wrote: Hm, you mean that enum variable is not a real variable? It is not a variable. It is a constant that cannot be changed and does not exist in the executable. I thought that to make CT variable you should mark it as enum (in c++ as constexpr). How to do

Re: Pass enum variable as const ref arg

2020-12-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 05/12/2020 1:54 AM, Andrey wrote: Hello, void test(const ref string[3] qazzz) { qazzz.writeln; } void main() {     enum string[3] value = ["qwer", "ggg", "v"]; That is a compile time constant (remove the enum).     test(value); } Gives errors: onlineapp.d(26): Error: function

Re: Local libraries/packages with dub: How?

2020-11-30 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 01/12/2020 7:39 PM, z wrote: On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 at 04:50:03 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: ... What puzzles me is that the dependencies are indeed declared, but "dub describe" refuses to recognize the dependencies and "dub build" fails. "dub list" does recognize the root folder,

Re: Local libraries/packages with dub: How?

2020-11-30 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
dub add-local, adds a directory as a known package that it can use as a dependency (or to be executed). You need to specify in the package that depends on the dependency what dependencies you have. I.e. See the dependencies key: { "name": "myproject", "description": "A

Re: why is "hello".writeln considered bad?

2020-11-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
I was the person who wrote that example. It was just an example to show how it can be used. I would not write a function call like that when using a literal. As Mike said, its all up to personal preference.

Re: betterC question

2020-11-18 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 19/11/2020 1:11 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: On Thursday, 19 November 2020 at 00:08:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 19 November 2020 at 00:07:12 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: int function() fp = test; This tries to *call* the function test and assign its return value to fp.

Re: toStringz lifetime

2020-11-08 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 09/11/2020 2:58 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Does the D GC know the complete function call stack of the C program all the way up from 'main'? Is there the concept of "bottom of the stack" or does the D GC can only know the value of the stack pointer at the time rt_init() was called. If the

Re: Empty functions

2020-10-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 29/10/2020 10:06 PM, Jan Hönig wrote: On Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 09:01:12 UTC, Jan Hönig wrote: This would mean, that this one should work as well. It does not work as I intended, as `() => {}` has not the return type of `void`. (I don't know how to print: `ReturnType!(() => {})`)

Re: Empty functions

2020-10-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
(Params){ FunctionBody; } Rule: ref|opt ParameterWithMemberAttributes FunctionLiteralBody https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#function_literals void function() Is a type https://dlang.org/spec/type.html#delegates () => {} Is actually: () => Expression Rule: ref|opt

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-26 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 26/10/2020 8:14 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote: You underestimate how spoiled windows developer are. Even these simple step are completely out of character for most software on the platform. 20 years ago it wasn't a problem, now on Windows 10 it's a whole other story. How many clicks to get the

Re: toStringz lifetime

2020-10-25 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 25/10/2020 11:03 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Does the GC see that local variable 'name' that is on the C side? What I don't know is whether the GC is aware only of the stack frames of D functions or the entire thread, which would include the C caller's 'name'. The thread stack frame that is

Re: GC-less string formatting

2020-10-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_format.html#formattedWrite Uses GC for exception (so cannot be @nogc yet), but otherwise it should be GC free.

Re: winapi, dll

2020-10-15 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 16/10/2020 9:13 AM, Atmosfear wrote: I'm a newby. Can you show me an example? In which module is it? You can search for it on Github and it'll show up. https://github.com/dlang/druntime/search?q=QueryPerformanceCounter

Re: Trying to create a trivial 64 bit D Lang DLL on a Windows 10 machine and cant get past linking.

2020-10-02 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 02/10/2020 9:33 PM, Imperatorn wrote: Did you create a D-partition just for D. Pro You can mount directories as a drive on Windows. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

Re: dub sub-projects

2020-09-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 21/09/2020 6:24 AM, Vladimirs Nordholm wrote: I am unsure what the dub file would look like. I read that there is something called "subPackages", but in my mind I see them as dependencies. Is "subPackages" the right approach here? Yes but no. Normally all of these (what appear to be small

Re: Installing D on Fresh Windows 10 machine is a pain

2020-08-28 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 28/08/2020 3:59 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: DMD installer still is unable to find "VS installed" One of the reasons for this is that the environment variables have not been updated. You need to restart to do this.

Re: Could someone calrify reserving and collecting memory via the Garbabe Collector ?

2020-08-06 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 07/08/2020 5:12 AM, wjoe wrote: There's core.memory.GC.reserve which requests memory from the OS. Basically pre-allocating memory for the GC heap. Is the GC heap shared among all threads ? That is up to the GC implementation. And is it correct that even if I call GC.disable, the GC may

Re: Template error with gdc-10 but not with latest dmd and ldc

2020-07-26 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Old frontend: Up to 2.060 : Failure with output: onlineapp.d(2): Error: valid attribute identifiers are @property, @safe, @trusted, @system, @disable not @nogc 2.061 to 2.065.0: Failure with output: - onlineapp.d(2): Error: user defined attributes cannot appear as postfixes

Re: Why is typeof(readln) -> void?

2020-07-18 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 18/07/2020 9:14 PM, blizzard wrote: Can anybody explain the difference between readln() and readln? I read somewhere that the () were optional, so why this difference? The brackets are optional when calling a function. You are not calling a function if you wrap it in typeof. "The

Re: Visual D 1.0.0 released

2020-07-10 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/07/2020 9:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I hope cv2pdb is in D, as that is a fine way to get C++ people used to D! https://github.com/rainers/cv2pdb Nope.

Re: Visual D 1.0.0 released

2020-07-09 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/07/2020 10:22 PM, Manu wrote: Then the general autocomplete engine, which is fairly dependent on the detail expressed in the project files. DCD is due for a rewrite into using dmd-fe. However as it stands, I do not believe it is mature enough to use as a library for this purpose. So I

Re: Calling a C function whose name is a D reserved word or keyword

2020-07-06 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#mangle pragma(mangle, "body") extern(C) void body_func();

Re: Translating C headers to D: How do I compile it?

2020-06-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 28/06/2020 4:59 PM, Kirill wrote: module something; extern(C) int add(int a, int b); Compile as static library some.c, add to command line of dmd. Should be this simple more or less, depending on compilers and target involved.

Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thank you Walter.

Re: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Formal Assessment

2020-05-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 28/05/2020 12:33 AM, aberba wrote: On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 18:36:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:49:27PM +, Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] Even if we suppose for the sake of argument that the decision is sound on a technical level, this

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/05/2020 10:12 PM, Johannes Loher wrote: Am 27.05.20 um 11:25 schrieb Walter Bright: On 5/24/2020 3:40 AM, Stefan Koch wrote: The distinction is that you can find a slapped on trusted with a grep. It's just as easy to use grep to *not* find @trusted. But that's not enough. You need a

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/05/2020 10:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Frankly, I feel that if I could sit down with you folks, I can get the idea across what I'm trying to accomplish. Okay, how is your camera and mic situation? Lets do a Twitch stream, make sure there are some moderators in place as well. Open to

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/05/2020 9:50 PM, Walter Bright wrote: BTW, one good thing that has come out of this issue is people are strongly in favor of what @safe does. That bodes well for DIP1000 and the @live code, for a long time I seemed to be the only one who cared about it. Most of the arguments against

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-25 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25/05/2020 10:29 PM, Zoadian wrote: you complain about @trusted losing it's meaning, but @safe was ment to mean "mechanically verified memory safety". it should be forbidden to add @safe to any function that can not be verified by the compiler. It is meant to mean that at some point it has

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-22 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 23/05/2020 5:40 AM, Atila Neves wrote: On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 17:33:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 23/05/2020 5:07 AM, Atila Neves wrote: [...] It is not about the linkage. The problem is solely does the compiler have the source to the function body to verify it? That's what I

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-22 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 23/05/2020 5:07 AM, Atila Neves wrote: On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 12:28:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 23/05/2020 12:19 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: With the rationale laid out clearly as it is here, I do have some responses in mind.  But before sharing them, I'd like to know

Re: DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

2020-05-22 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 23/05/2020 12:19 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: With the rationale laid out clearly as it is here, I do have some responses in mind.  But before sharing them, I'd like to know whether that would be useful right now: I've no wish to just press for a re-hashing of conversations that have

Re: How to use base class & child class as parameter in one function ?

2020-05-22 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
if (Child child = cast(Child)parent) { assert(child !is null); }

Re: BindBC Updates: new loader function, SDL_net, streamlined SDL_* version indentifiers

2020-05-21 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 22/05/2020 12:21 PM, Daniel C wrote: Can this library be used in a 64-bit build?  I only see the one lib, and was curious if the function definitions make any assumptions about argument size or stack configuration etc. There are no binary files provided in the bindbc-sdl repository.

Re: any chance to get it working on windows xp?

2020-05-18 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 19/05/2020 12:51 AM, a beginner wrote: @rikki cattermole Dmd and ldc's codegen haven't stood still for 10 years. They both will be emitting instructions your cpu cannot handle. Hence crashes. So... was I wrong to assume it generates code for the cpu it's running on (a P4 Northwood in my

Re: any chance to get it working on windows xp?

2020-05-17 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
It isn't just about the OS. Dmd and ldc's codegen haven't stood still for 10 years. They both will be emitting instructions your cpu cannot handle. Hence crashes.

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/05/2020 9:05 PM, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2020-05-04 21:34:27 +, rikki cattermole said: On 05/05/2020 7:26 AM, notna wrote: Maybe you want to add an additional constraint... It would be great if this would result in a tool, scripts or at least a simple-to-follow to-do (say

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/05/2020 7:26 AM, notna wrote: Maybe you want to add an additional constraint... It would be great if this would result in a tool, scripts or at least a simple-to-follow to-do (say Wiki?!)... so best case we could use this also for the next updates / releases in the future?! It wouldn't

Re: Building Win32 application via dub

2020-04-29 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 29/04/2020 10:27 PM, Sam E. wrote: To be honest, I haven't yet found the way to switch between -m32 and -m64 (or other) via dub :) $ dub build --arch=x86 $ dub build --arch=x86_64

Re: dmdcache

2020-04-26 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 27/04/2020 1:52 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: However, currently dmdcache doesn't seem to look for string imports; opportunity for improvement. :) That should not be necessary if you base it on -J instead.

Re: To get memory from another process.

2020-04-09 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 10/04/2020 7:42 AM, Dennis wrote: On Thursday, 9 April 2020 at 19:27:16 UTC, Quantium wrote: I see this code imports drivers and does it depend on processor architecture? Would it work only on 64-bit or 32-bit or some special architechtures? kernel32.dll and psapi.dll should be present on

Re: Dub will not load bindbc-harfbuzz

2020-04-09 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
How old is your build of dub? "betterC" build option was introduced in 1.20.0

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