Dynamic array length ABI unit
Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 16 04:54:35 PDT 2014
""Luís Marques " wrote in message
news:fykakpufqivskbnusxgl at forum.dlang.org...
>
> Regarding the D ABI, http://dlang.org/abi.html , I've noticed that the
> description for dynamic arrays seems ambiguous:
>
> offset property contents
> 0 .length array dimension
> size_t .ptr pointer to array data
>
> Couldn't "array dimension" be either in bytes or in T units, for a T[]? It
> seems to be in bytes (I had assumed it was in T units). If you agree that
> it is ambiguous, please tweak the description to be more precise.
It _is_ in T units. It is exactly the dimension of the array, not the size
in memory.
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