Front page code samples

wobbles via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 1 14:24:43 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 20:49:59 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 20:43:44 UTC, wobbles wrote:
>> When trying to run the front page code samples, it regularly 
>> bugs out.
>> This is the first time I've tried in ages, but of the first 4 
>> samples I tried, none worked.
>>
>> The example with:
>>    // D is like...
>> crashes with:
>>    unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory
>>
>>
>> The example with:
>>    // RPN calculator
>> simply outputs:
>>     -- No output --
>>
>> The example with:
>>    // Get your local weather report
>> crashes with:
>>    Compilation output (9: Killed)
>>
>> The example with:
>>    // Computes average line length for standard input.
>> wait, it works?! Output:
>>    Average line length: 82
>> Yay, success!
>>
>> Anyway, I said I'd put this here in case this isn't a known 
>> issue.
>>
>> Personally I'd rather no ability to run code live than the 
>> current situation, it just looks quite bad - especially now as 
>> theres quite a bit of interest in D being generated around.
>
> Thanks for reporting it. It is a known issue that has to do 
> with the version of D used with the plugin that displays the 
> code.
>
> If you want to report other issues consider searching the forum 
> to check that it hasn't already been addressed and (even 
> better) use the bug tracker at http://issues.dlang.org/ . This 
> way problems have more chances of getting fixed.

Yeah, I should have checked the bug tracker.
Bug report here:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12210

Still - I hope having this here on the forum might raise 
awareness.
Sadly, I don't know the internals of dlang.org, nor do I have the 
time to get to know it, to help fix this.


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