Re: Undescriptive linker error. (bug?)

2019-04-05 Thread Sjoerd Nijboer via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 5 April 2019 at 22:08:50 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Weird combination of cases that maybe should be illegal. It errors with the highly descriptive errormessage: app.obj(app) Error 42: Symbol Undefined __D8mymodule3BarFZ3fooMFZCQx3Foo Error: linker exited with status 1

Re: Undescriptive linker error. (bug?)

2019-04-05 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 5 April 2019 at 21:59:35 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote: Foo Bar() { Foo foo(); It looks like the compiler is treating that as a function prototype without a body (that just happens to be nested in another function). return foo; And then, this foo is given the

Undescriptive linker error. (bug?)

2019-04-05 Thread Sjoerd Nijboer via Digitalmars-d-learn
module mymodule; class Foo{} Foo Bar() { Foo foo(); return foo; } int main() { auto foo = Bar(); return 0; } This code doesn't compile with a linker error that there's a missing symbol for `Foo Bar()` on windows. After all, `Foo foo();` isn't legitimate