std.stdint seems to be an outcast?

Kapps via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 8 17:13:15 PST 2014


On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 17:21:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> There is a module called std.stdint located here:
>
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdint.html
>
> but it doesn't appear in the documentation index here:
>
> http://dlang.org/phobos/index.html
>
> Not only that but when looking at the source it's just publicly 
> importing core.stdc.stdint.
>
> What's the deal here? Is this a supported module? Should it 
> appear in the doc index?

It was probably something that used to exist in phobos but was 
moved to druntime, so the std one was left as an alias of sorts 
to the core one (but undocumented so people don't use it in the 
future).


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