std.socket with GDC

[Joseph Bell]

Thanks Chris - that indeed was the trick - I haven't delved deep enough 
into D to know if my expectation of being able to pass an unbounded 
array has any merit.  Suffice it to say, this works - thank you.

Chris Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:09:52 -0500, Joseph Bell <josephabell at tx.rr.com> 
> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>    ubyte[] buf;
>>    Address receiveAddress;
>>    int bytes;
>>
>>    bytes = sock.receiveFrom(buf, receiveAddress);
>>
>>    if (bytes) {
>>      writefln("Received %d bytes", bytes);
>>    } else {
>>      writefln("Error or nothing received");
>>    }
>>
>> }
> 
> Give it some memory to write into...  buf = new ubyte[1000];
> and then buf[0 .. bytes] is valid, assuming no errors.