On Friday, 30 August 2013 at 17:28:12 UTC, Manu wrote:
struct MyStruct; // <- forward declared (opaque type, never
defined)
MyStruct*[] arrayOfPointers;
arrayOfPointers ~= null; // appending doesn't work
arrayOfPointers = new MyStruct*[n]; // or just allocating the
array doesn't
work either
Complains:
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct is forward referenced when
looking for
'toHash'
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct is forward referenced when
looking for
'opCmp'
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct is forward referenced when
looking for
'toString'
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct unknown size
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct no size yet for forward
reference
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct unknown size
1>code.d(84): Error: struct MyStruct no size yet for forward
reference
What's the go here?
Why would it need any of that information? It's just a
pointer...
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10451
A couple of other forward-ref bugs relating to opaque structs
have been recently fixed in git master. If I knew where to look
or what to do, I'd fix this one myself. It's an ongoing source of
bug reports for Derelict and is bugging the hell out of me.
