• Joshua Niehus <jm.niehus gmail.com> Jun 28 2011

Joshua Niehus <jm.niehus gmail.com> writes:

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Hello,

I was trying to run the example on the Interfacing to C page (
http://www.d-programming-language.org/interfaceToC.html) and ran into few
issues. To get it to work "as is" i was .dup(ing) strings into new chars
with defined size and passing those with .ptr. Anyway it seemed like quite a
bit of work for something simple so I added const in the signatures and
things worked much more smoothly:

import std.stdio, std.string;

extern (C) int strcmp(const char* string1, const char* string2);

void main()
{
    writeln(myDfunction("foo"));
}

int myDfunction(const char[] s) {
    return strcmp(std.string.toStringz(s), "foo");
}

Was there a reason why the consts were left out?
if this is a typo I'd be happy to update the web page, would be good
experience for a noob like me. (never used GIT before and first time
participating in a community)

Thanks,
Josh

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g to C page (<a href=3D"http://www.d-programming-language.org/interfaceToC.=
html">http://www.d-programming-language.org/interfaceToC.html</a>) and ran =
into few issues. To get it to work &quot;as is&quot; i was .dup(ing) string=
s into new chars with defined size and passing those with .ptr. Anyway it s=
eemed like quite a bit of work for something simple so I added const in the=
 signatures and things worked much more smoothly:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>import std.stdio, std.string;</div><div><br></div>=
<div>extern (C) int strcmp(const char* string1, const char* string2);</div>=
<div><br></div><div>void main()</div><div>{</div><div>=A0 =A0 writeln(myDfu=
nction(&quot;foo&quot;));</div>
<div>}</div><div><br></div><div>int myDfunction(const char[] s) {</div><div=
=A0 =A0 return strcmp(std.string.toStringz(s), &quot;foo&quot;);</div><div=
}</div></div><div><br></div><div>Was there a reason why the consts were le=


<div>if this is a typo I&#39;d be happy to update the web page, would be go=
od experience for a noob like me. (never used GIT before and first time par=
ticipating in a community)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Josh=
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