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reply =?UTF-8?B?R3nDtnJneQ==?= Andrasek <jurily gmail.com> writes:
Hi,

I accidentally ran dstep twice and ended up with the following 
interaction:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/3155

---

ldc 1.17.0, Android/Termux.

libarchive comes in two public header files: `archive.h` and 
`archive_entry.h`.

Both headers declare `struct archive;` and `struct 
archive_entry;`, faithfully
reproduced by dstep. Trying to import both yields a conflict 
immediately:

```
[  6%] Building D object 
CMakeFiles/wng.dir/src/wngbase/libarchive.o
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/libarchive.d(27): Error:
`archive_h.archive` at
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/archive_h.d(122)
conflicts with `archive_entry_h.archive` at
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/archive_entry_h.d(92)
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/libarchive.d(28): Error:
`archive_h.archive_entry` at
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/archive_h.d(123)
conflicts with `archive_entry_h.archive_entry` at
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/archive_entry_h.d(93)
```

Annoying, but alias can deal with it. The problem comes in 
actually using them. Annotated for clarity:

```D
int archive_read_next_header(archive_h.archive*, 
archive_h.archive_entry**);

const(char)* 
archive_entry_pathname_utf8(archive_entry_h.archive_entry*);
```

(I'm guessing this is the correct place to report this since this 
is a notable improvement from ldc 1.13, which didn't even 
understand pointer-to-opaque.)

---

They told me to go away. :)

I'm not trying to redesign the language, it simply didn't occur 
to me that this won't work or isn't a trivial oversight. (Android 
is dark and full of terrors.)

I can't imagine how it makes the language better to disallow 
cross-module C calls like this, given that the least ugly 
workaround is `void *`.

P.S.  kinke went through the trouble of upgrading ldc on Termux 
while I was busy installing cargo. Android is now ahead of 
Ubuntu. Please give him a medal or something.
Sep 05 2019
next sibling parent reply Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:
The solution for ambiguity is disambiguation, not void*.
Sep 06 2019
parent Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:
On 06.09.19 10:31, Kagamin wrote:
 The solution for ambiguity is disambiguation, not void*.
There is no ambiguity. The error is obviously silly. It makes no sense to force the user to explicitly disambiguate between two equivalent options.
Sep 06 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:
On 06.09.19 01:19, György Andrasek wrote:
 Annoying, but alias can deal with it. The problem comes in actually 
 using them. Annotated for clarity:
 
 ```D
 int archive_read_next_header(archive_h.archive*, 
 archive_h.archive_entry**);
 
 const(char)* archive_entry_pathname_utf8(archive_entry_h.archive_entry*);
 ```
 
 (I'm guessing this is the correct place to report this since this is a 
 notable improvement from ldc 1.13, which didn't even understand 
 pointer-to-opaque.)
 
Actually, the correct place is https://issues.dlang.org (issues posted only here are likely to get forgotten because nobody tracks issues discussed on the forums).
 ---
 
 They told me to go away. :)
 ...
LDC is mostly a compiler backend effort. Updating the DMD frontend will usually update LDC quickly after.
 I'm not trying to redesign the language,
You actually are, but that's not a bad thing.
 it simply didn't occur to me 
 that this won't work or isn't a trivial oversight. (Android is dark and 
 full of terrors.)
 ...
Making this work requires changing the language non-trivially.
 I can't imagine how it makes the language better to disallow 
 cross-module C calls like this, given that the least ugly workaround is 
 `void *`.
It doesn't make the language any better, but the way this is phrased makes little sense. The current behavior requires no additional effort. `extern(C)` just doesn't affect symbol identity on the D side: --- module a; import std.stdio; extern(C) struct S; template test(alias x){ int test; } import b; void main(){ test!(S)=2; test!(b.S)=3; writeln(test!S," ",test!(b.S)); // 2 3 } --- --- module b; extern(C) struct S; --- So even though the two declarations of S would refer to the same type on the C side, this is not the case on the D side. The code above is just one example of code that needs to change behavior to support the feature you want.
Sep 06 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:
On 06.09.19 01:19, György Andrasek wrote:
 given that the least ugly workaround is `void *`.
Given that you are changing the generated headers anyway, why isn't the least ugly workaround to delete the conflicting declarations in one of them and importing them from the other one?
Sep 06 2019
parent =?UTF-8?B?R3nDtnJneQ==?= Andrasek <jurily gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 6 September 2019 at 10:28:02 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
 On 06.09.19 01:19, György Andrasek wrote:
 given that the least ugly workaround is `void *`.
Given that you are changing the generated headers anyway, why isn't the least ugly workaround to delete the conflicting declarations in one of them and importing them from the other one?
It might make more sense if you think of `void *` as a swear word.
Sep 06 2019
prev sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2019-09-06 01:19, György Andrasek wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I accidentally ran dstep twice and ended up with the following interaction:
 
 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/3155
 
 ---
 
 ldc 1.17.0, Android/Termux.
 
 libarchive comes in two public header files: `archive.h` and 
 `archive_entry.h`.
 
 Both headers declare `struct archive;` and `struct archive_entry;`, 
 faithfully
 reproduced by dstep. Trying to import both yields a conflict immediately:
 
 ```
 [  6%] Building D object CMakeFiles/wng.dir/src/wngbase/libarchive.o
 /data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/libarchive.d(27): 
 Error: `archive_h.archive` at 
 /data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/archive_h.d(122) 
 conflicts with `archive_entry_h.archive` at 
 /data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/a
chive_entry_h.d(92) 
 
 /data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/libarchive.d(28): 
 Error: `archive_h.archive_entry` at 
 /data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/archive_h.d(123) 
 conflicts with `archive_entry_h.archive_entry` at 
 /data/data/com.termux/files/home/weidu-ng/src/wngbase/binding/a
chive_entry_h.d(93) 
 
 ```
It's easier if you can show the code. Is one declaration a forward reference and the other a definition or are both forward references? It's a known limitation of DStep. DStep would need to look at all files and if one is a forward reference replace that with an import. If all declarations are forward references I guess DStep would need to arbitrary pick one as the "main" one and replace the other ones with imports and/or aliases. I know this issue has come up before. I might already have been reported here [1]. [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/issues -- /Jacob Carlborg
Sep 07 2019