Hi, I'm currently playing around using different DLLs from D. I saw that
quite some C/C++ functions use notation like this:
    void version(short &major, short &minor);

How should I convert this best to the D world? I first converted the
funciton delcation like this:
    extern (C) export void version (short &major, short &minor);

And tried to call it from D with:
    short major, minor;
    version (major, minor);

Of course this doesn't work. The only way I have found so far is this:
    extern (C) export void version (short *major, short *minor);
    short major, minor;
    version (&major, &minor);

Is there any better way to do it? A more Dlish way?

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Robert M. Münch wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently playing around using different DLLs from D. I saw that
> quite some C/C++ functions use notation like this:
>     void version(short &major, short &minor);
> 
> How should I convert this best to the D world? I first converted the
> funciton delcation like this:
>     extern (C) export void version (short &major, short &minor);
> 
> And tried to call it from D with:
>     short major, minor;
>     version (major, minor);
> 
> Of course this doesn't work. The only way I have found so far is this:
>     extern (C) export void version (short *major, short *minor);
>     short major, minor;
>     version (&major, &minor);
> 
> Is there any better way to do it? A more Dlish way?

extern (C) void version (inout short major, inout short minor);
short major, minor;
version (major, minor);

"Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:b1j4or$s3m$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> extern (C) void version (inout short major, inout short minor);
> short major, minor;
> version (major, minor);

Thanks a lot ! :-)) Seems like I need to RTFM once again. With this it should even be possible to write a script that converts such declarations from C to D. Robert

Hello.

In about a week i'll start writing a tool to convert C headers into D
import units. It shall be written completely in D. IMO, D has most of
the "sweet sides" of scripting languages.

First information requiered is collected by Mike Winn who was going to
write one already.
http://www.l8night.co.uk/mwynn/d/deimos.html
But i think that the whole system he proposes is too complicated. I
think mine would be more simple and straightforward, though provide a
more limited maintainance.

Grüße aus München
-i.

Robert M. Münch wrote:
> With this it should even be possible to write a script that converts
> such declarations from C to D. Robert

yes, it is, I got bogged down dealing with nested structs, and interfaces
are different you need to know which are new methods and which are
inherited, making it easier to use a few replace alls in an editor (like the
transforms I doc'd)
and then an hour tidying up (how I did the Windows and DirectX headers).
the idea had been to allow tools such as Araxis Merge/CSDiff to be modified
to handle updates to the C header
and migrate to the D module without the need to fully reconvert.
if ou want the source to the version I have party working email me, I'll see
if I can get it back to producing some output :) currently I've got a big
bug in the code where is does not pop the transfrom if there are any nested
structs,
and the comments it generates are a bit wrong. (its totally based on
regexp's which at the time I thought was an easy way to get something
working [fool])
I should update the website, as I've kind of given up development due to not
having the time at present.and getting distracted writing some D crypto libs
to see how they compare speedwise to my C++ libs.

I'll check that there are not transforms I though up that are not online.

best of luck getting it working, you have customer No. 1, I've still got C headers I want to convert :).

Mike.

"Ilya Minkov" <midiclub@8ung.at> wrote in message
news:b1p34l$1q1o$1@digitaldaemon.com...
Hello.

In about a week i'll start writing a tool to convert C headers into D import units. It shall be written completely in D. IMO, D has most of the "sweet sides" of scripting languages.

First information requiered is collected by Mike Winn who was going to
write one already.
http://www.l8night.co.uk/mwynn/d/deimos.html
But i think that the whole system he proposes is too complicated. I
think mine would be more simple and straightforward, though provide a
more limited maintainance.

Grüße aus München
-i.

Robert M. Münch wrote:
> With this it should even be possible to write a script that converts such declarations from C to D. Robert

"Ilya Minkov" <midiclub@8ung.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:b1p34l$1q1o$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> In about a week i'll start writing a tool to convert C headers into D import units. It shall be written completely in D. IMO, D has most of the "sweet sides" of scripting languages.

Hi, hmmm don't know if using D for such a tool is the best idea. IMO that's something for which scripting languages are perfect. I'm going to try something done in Rebol. It has very nice parsing build in and I just want to setup a collection of rules that can be processed. This Might not lead to a perfect output but a good enough one. Robert