• Matthew B. (21/21) Oct 19 2003 Unless I'm missing some nuance of the syntax, it seems that the linker f...
• Marcel Strik (5/36) Oct 21 2003 I might be wrong, but I think this is the right behaviour.
• Walter (5/11) Jan 26 2004 fails

"Matthew B." <mattcbro earthlink.net> writes:

Unless I'm missing some nuance of the syntax, it seems that the linker fails
when one tries to compare arrays of structures.
Here is the code fragment that will generate the linker error



struct sowhat {
 uint failure ;
}

int main(char[][] args) {
 sowhat[] s1, s2 ;

int k ;
s1.length = 3 ;
s2.length = 3 ;
for (k = 0 ; k < s1.length ; k++) {
 s1[k].failure = 1 ;
 s2[k].failure = 1 ;
}

// If we loop through each element of the array and check we are OK
for (k = 0 ; k < s1.length ; k++) assert(s1[k] == s2[k]) ;
// A direct comparison like below doesn't work
   assert(s1 == s2) ;

return(0) ;

}

Marcel Strik <mars_888 hotmail.com> writes:

I might be wrong, but I think this is the right behaviour. 
I think assert(s1 == s2); will compare the addresses of s1 and s2 which 
will be different. assert(s1[] == s2[]); might work, but I'm not sure.


"Matthew B." <mattcbro earthlink.net> wrote in
news:bmv3lg$2r0q$1 digitaldaemon.com: 

 Unless I'm missing some nuance of the syntax, it seems that the linker
 fails when one tries to compare arrays of structures.
 Here is the code fragment that will generate the linker error
 
 
 
 struct sowhat {
  uint failure ;
 }
 
 int main(char[][] args) {
  sowhat[] s1, s2 ;
 
 int k ;
 s1.length = 3 ;
 s2.length = 3 ;
 for (k = 0 ; k < s1.length ; k++) {
  s1[k].failure = 1 ;
  s2[k].failure = 1 ;
 }
 
 // If we loop through each element of the array and check we are OK
 for (k = 0 ; k < s1.length ; k++) assert(s1[k] == s2[k]) ;
 // A direct comparison like below doesn't work
    assert(s1 == s2) ;
 
 return(0) ;
 
 }
 
 

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Matthew B." <mattcbro earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:bmv3lg$2r0q$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Unless I'm missing some nuance of the syntax, it seems that the linker

fails
 when one tries to compare arrays of structures.
 Here is the code fragment that will generate the linker error



 struct sowhat {
  uint failure ;
 }

To make it work, there needs to be a Typeinfo created for sowhat. Right now,
it would need to be done manually.