New blog post featuring D

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On 1/22/2024 6:00 AM, Brian Callahan wrote: > It's not the star of the show, but my latest blog post features D as one of the heroes to quickly solve one of my problems. Was a nice reminder that if you make content, it doesn't have to be "about" D in order to show D off. Just a nod to "when I have a problem, I use D to solve it" can be helpful. > > https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240122.html > > ~Brian Nice work! Minor suggestion: The D example is too short to benefit from -O -release flags. Also, `-fas` is redundant as `as` is produced by default.

On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 20:57:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > On 1/22/2024 6:00 AM, Brian Callahan wrote: >> It's not the star of the show, but my latest blog post features D as one of the heroes to quickly solve one of my problems. Was a nice reminder that if you make content, it doesn't have to be "about" D in order to show D off. Just a nod to "when I have a problem, I use D to solve it" can be helpful. >> >> https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240122.html >> >> ~Brian > > Nice work! Minor suggestion: The D example is too short to benefit from -O -release flags. Also, `-fas` is redundant as `as` is produced by default. You shouldn't advertise -release flag as long as it does "wrong thing"™ like removing array bound checking and assertions (it is contradictory to your normal memory safety stance).

On 1/23/2024 1:58 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote: > You shouldn't advertise -release flag as long as it does "wrong thing"™ like removing array bound checking and assertions (it is contradictory to your normal memory safety stance). -release has not removed array bounds checking for about 17 years now :-)

On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 21:30:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > On 1/23/2024 1:58 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote: >> You shouldn't advertise -release flag as long as it does "wrong thing"™ like removing array bound checking and assertions (it is contradictory to your normal memory safety stance). > > -release has not removed array bounds checking for about 17 years now :-) The documentation says "Array bounds checking is not done for system and trusted functions, and assertion failures are undefined behaviour." https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-release

January 23

Re: New blog post featuring D

Posted by Siarhei Siamashka
in reply to Patrick Schluter

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Siarhei Siamashka

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On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 09:58:53 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

You shouldn't advertise -release flag as long as it does "wrong thing"™ like removing array bound checking and assertions (it is contradictory to your normal memory safety stance).

The "-release" option removes bounds checking from the unsafe code, but keeps them in the code that is annotated as @safe. The only problem is that @safe is not the default function attribute in D. So all samples from the blog post need a @safe: line added in the beginning of the source file to opt-in the safety. The first sample would turn into:

@safe:
import std.string;
import std.process;

int main(string[] args) {
    string[] av = new string[args.length + 2];
    av[0] = "/usr/bin/cc", av[1] = "-xassembler", av[2] = "-c";

    size_t ac = 3;
    foreach (i; 1 .. args.length)
        av[ac++] = args[i];

    return spawnProcess(av).wait();
}

Also there's an error in one of the samples:

int main(strings[] args) {

On 1/23/2024 1:45 PM, jmh530 wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 21:30:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 1/23/2024 1:58 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote: >>> You shouldn't advertise -release flag as long as it does "wrong thing"™ like removing array bound checking and assertions (it is contradictory to your normal memory safety stance). >> >> -release has not removed array bounds checking for about 17 years now :-) > > The documentation says "Array bounds checking is not done for system and trusted functions, and assertion failures are undefined behaviour." > > https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-release You're right. It is not removed from @safe code.

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