Network programming

Andre Kostur via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat May 24 11:29:14 PDT 2014


On 2014-05-24, 11:18 AM, Andre Kostur wrote:
> I'm finally making my first concerted foray into D programming.  Being a
> networking guy (and a good history in C and C++) I'm starting with some
> network code (and trying to use vibe.d as well).  However, I'm running
> into some holes that I'm not sure if I'm overlooking something or just
> that nobody has run into these themselves yet.  As a quick overview, I'm
> looking to talk to the netlink and tun interfaces on linux, as well as
> raw IP packets (below UDP and TCP).
>
> First up is the D equivalent to htons/ntohs.  I've found
> core.bitop.bswap, but that only works on 32-bit values, and not 16.  And
> come to think of it, it would be blindly swapping the bytes.  What about
> platforms (hello, sparc) where host byte order is the same as network
> byte order?

Of course in fine tradition... minutes after posting one finds an 
answer.  I'm looking too low... std.bitmanip has what I'm looking for.


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