Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-30 Thread Eduard Staniloiu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 21:00:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 19:56:18 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: The current behavior of the compiler is quite the opposite of those "same as" above. Yeah, I guess I am maybe selectively reading the spec in light of the

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 19:56:18 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: The current behavior of the compiler is quite the opposite of those "same as" above. Yeah, I guess I am maybe selectively reading the spec in light of the implementation... but I think the examples are just sloppy. Or

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 13:22:36 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: The spec doesn't exactly say it uses memset, but it does imply it: https://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#array-copying talking about "aggressive parallel code optimizations than possible with the serial semantics of C" and

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Eduard Staniloiu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:55:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:25:37 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: IMHO, this is a bug. The code should lower to calls to opAssing for types that define opAssign. The spec doesn't exactly say it uses memset, but it does

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Eduard Staniloiu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 13:01:06 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:38:44 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:25:37 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: As I wrote in the comments above, I was expecting `a[] = b[]` to iterate the slices and

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Eduard Staniloiu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:38:44 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:25:37 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: As I wrote in the comments above, I was expecting `a[] = b[]` to iterate the slices and assign the elements of b into a. What really happens is a memcpy: as

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:25:37 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: IMHO, this is a bug. The code should lower to calls to opAssing for types that define opAssign. The spec doesn't exactly say it uses memset, but it does imply it: https://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#array-copying talking

Re: Built-in array opSliceAssign

2018-10-25 Thread Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 12:25:37 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote: As I wrote in the comments above, I was expecting `a[] = b[]` to iterate the slices and assign the elements of b into a. What really happens is a memcpy: as you can see from godblot [0], this gets lowered to a call to