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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