On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 13:24:49 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
The following code runs correctly when compiled with ldc
(1.4.0) but fails with an assert error when compiled with dmd
(2.076 and ldc 1.2.0)
```
class A
{
}
class B
{
T opCast(T)()
{
return this;
}
}
void main()
{
A a = null;
B b = null;
auto c = cast(Object)a;
auto d = cast(Object)b; // Fails with:
core.exception.AssertError@test.d(8): null this
}
```
How would you write an opCast that would handle this case
correctly?
Compiler change is required.
This doesn't happen in -release mode. The assert is automatically
generated by the compiler. It could be disabled, as done here for
ctors and dtors
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6982
