Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he 
shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a 
real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, 
from C to D.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

Andrea Fontana <nospam example.com> writes:

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he 
 shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a 
 real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog 
 post, from C to D.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

Link to "completed conversion" doesn't work.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/make/make.c

Andrea

Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:33:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:

 Link to "completed conversion" doesn't work.
 https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/make/make.c

 Andrea

Fixed. Thanks!

Andrea Fontana <nospam example.com> writes:

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he 
 shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a 
 real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog 
 post, from C to D.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

It seems that blog page is returned correctly by server but 
status is 404.

Andrea

bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:52:13 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
 On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he 
 shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a 
 real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog 
 post, from C to D.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

 It seems that blog page is returned correctly by server but 
 status is 404.

 Andrea

I noticed that too

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On 6/11/18 10:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows 
 step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world 
 program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
 
 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
 
 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_co
verting_makec_to_d/ 
 

"static if can replace cmany uses of #if"

cmany => many

-Steve

rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:

On 12/06/2018 2:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
 On 6/11/18 10:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows 
 step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world 
 program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_co
verting_makec_to_d/ 

 
 "static if can replace cmany uses of #if"
 
 cmany => many
 
 -Steve

"(See the dcoumentation"
"make manual pagewhen"

Bastiaan Veelo <Bastiaan Veelo.net> writes:

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 15:44:47 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
 On 12/06/2018 2:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
 On 6/11/18 10:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he 
 shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a 
 real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog 
 post, from C to D.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

 
 "static if can replace cmany uses of #if"
 
 cmany => many
 
 -Steve

 "(See the dcoumentation"
 "make manual pagewhen"

"The #include files are replaced" <tt> font includes too many 
words.

Nice read, I see translating to D is trending.

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/11/2018 7:21 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows
step-by-step 
 an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough 
 to describe in a blog post, from C to D.
 
 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/
 
 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_co
verting_makec_to_d/ 
 

It's on the second page of Hacker News too.

https://news.ycombinator.com

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

Direct link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284350\

biocyberman <biocyberman gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 at 08:42:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 Direct link:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284350\

I tried compiling 'make' for fun, but failed. Is the source on 
github outdated? You can see the errors here: 
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/issues/5

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/12/2018 3:35 AM, biocyberman wrote:
 On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 at 08:42:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 Direct link:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284350\

 
 I tried compiling 'make' for fun, but failed. Is the source on github
outdated? 
 You can see the errors here: https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/issues/5
 
 

See followup there.

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

What I had with actually modern C:
1) narrowing conversions
2) not only arrays decay to pointers, C happily allows the 
opposite too, eww
3) looks like C code loves to have function arguments named `in` 
and `out`

Also difficulties with transpiling to C don't look that big: 
errno is the first glaring example TLS usage in C, glibc even 
tunes TLS model for it; AFAIK, C++ stores current exception in 
some sort of static storage and provides a function to retrieve 
it from there, a similar approach can be used for C target, 
though betterc shouldn't use exceptions.

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:21:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he 
 shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a 
 real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog 
 post, from C to D.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8q9u5t/dasbetterc_converting_makec_to_d/

The example for replacing grouping together multiple pointer 
declarations has some raw HTML leaked into it, at least for me in 
Chrome.