Interfacing D with C: Getting Started

[Arun Chandrasekaran]

On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 04:33:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 04:27:01 UTC, Mike Parker 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 04:14:35 UTC, Arun 
>> Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Why is this? How are we expected to write cross platform code 
>>> with long/ulong? What are the alternatives? 99
>>
>> It's right there in the blog post:
>>
>> import core.stdc.config : c_ulong, clong;
>
> Or was the paragraph ambiguous for you? long and ulong are 
> always 8 bytes in D. It's the C types that vary across 
> platforms. I've updated the text as Joakim suggested for 
> clarity.

Thanks Mike, that explains!