On 12/7/15 5:32 PM, anonymous wrote:
On 07.12.2015 21:56, John Carter wrote:
So whilst attempt to convert from a hex string (without the 0x) to int I
bumped into the @@@BUG@@@ the size of China....
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/conv.d#L2270
Is there a bugzilla issue number tracking this?
Searching for conv and parse in the issue tracker didn't turn it up....
Is this a phobos bug or a compiler bug?
I followed the example in the unit test to get a workaround.... but I
don't understand why the workaround works!
I'm not sure if there's a bug. `parse` takes the string via `ref`, but
string literals are not lvalues so they cannot be passed that way. This
should also make it clear why the workaround works: A string literal is
not an lvalue, but a variable is.
Maybe whoever added that note thinks that string literals should be
lvalues. That would make it a compiler bug. I think that would be a
controversial viewpoint, though.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/406bbbb9b485c01eb3afeada056ffb46924ee06b
I doubt Andrei thinks string literals should be lvalues.
It's an old bug, if it still exists. But in any case, the description is
terrible. A real bug report should be filed.
-Steve
