Re: [9fans] A compiler bug

2018-08-01 Thread Bakul Shah
On Aug 1, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > even so, the format and intention of the example seems practical (with the > correct cast to uintptr) and "An implementation may accept other forms of > constant expressions". > it should be fairly easy to add as an extension with consistent

[9fans] A compiler bug

2018-08-01 Thread Bakul Shah
Consider: % cat x.c #include uintptr foo[3]; uintptr bar=[2]; % 8c -c x.c # this works. % 5c -c x.c # this fails x.c:3 initializer is not a constant: bar If I change the last line to uintptr* bar=[2]; Both compilers compile it fine. But if I change the last line to uintptr