[gdc-0.24_3 on freebsd8current/amd64 ]can't run socket.connect

[David Friedman]

kevin wrote:
> import std.socket;
> import std.socketstream;
> 
> int main()
> {
>     Socket sock = new Socket(AddressFamily.INET, SocketType.STREAM, 
> ProtocolType.IP);
>     sock.connect(new InternetAddress("www.digitalmars.com", 80));
>     SocketStream ss = new SocketStream(sock);
> 
>     ss.writeString("GET /d/intro.html HTTP/1.1\r\n"
>        "Host: www.digitalmars.com\r\n"
>        "\r\n");
> 
>     while(ss.readLine().length) {} //skip header
>     while(!ss.eof())
>     {
>        char[] line;
>        printf("%.*s\n", ss.readLine());
>     }
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> ----------------------
> I try to run this. I find it compile well.but when I run it., it core dump.

Although the D spec says you can pass a string for a "%.*s" format, it 
really only works on 32-bit targets.  The argument for '*' is of type 
'int', not 'size_t'. On a 64-bit target, passing a char[] really passes 
a 'size_t' and 'char*', which is not what printf expects.

To be portable, you have to do this:

	string s2 = ss.readline();
	printf("%.*s\n", cast(int) s2.length, s2.ptr);

David