Thanks, Dave!  That works, though I don't understand why...

On Dec 14, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:

> Jonathon,
> 
> This is being tracked by our internal bug number 8590846. I'm told that the 
> workaround is to place the array within a structure:
> 
> __block struct {
>       double result[COUNT];
> } results;
> 
> 
> davez
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to learn GCD and reading 
>> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#featuredarticles/BlocksGCD/index.html
>> But the Global Concurrent Queues example in that document (last updated 
>> 2010-11-10) doesn't even compile. It complains about accessing array 
>> 'result' from within the block:
>> 
>> #define COUNT 128
>> __block double result[COUNT];
>> dispatch_apply(COUNT, q_default, ^(size_t i){
>>      result[i] = complex_calculation(i);   /* <=== ERROR HERE!
>> });
>> double sum = 0;
>> for (int i=0; i < COUNT; i++) sum += result[i];
>> 
>> 
>> What is wrong here? This looks like it should work. Below is my full program.
>> -Jonathon
>> 
>> 
>> #include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #define COUNT 128
>> 
>> double complex_calculation( int i )
>> {
>>  return i * 3.14;
>> }
>> 
>> int main()
>> {
>>  int i = 0;
>>  __block double result[COUNT];
>> 
>>  dispatch_queue_t q_default;
>>  /* get default queue */
>>  q_default = dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0);
>> 
>>  dispatch_apply(COUNT, q_default, ^(size_t i) {
>>    result[i] = complex_calculation(i);   /* <=== ERROR HERE!
>>  });
>> 
>>  double sum = 0;
>>  for (i=0; i < COUNT; i++) sum += result[i];
>>  printf("%f\n", sum);
>>  return 0;
>> }
>> 
>> $ cc -g blk3.c -o blk3
>> blk3.c: In function ‘__main_block_invoke_1’:
>> blk3.c:20: error: cannot access __block variable of array type inside block
>> 
>> 
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