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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zarzycki%40apple.com > > This email sent to zarzy...@apple.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com