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reply Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:
jcc7 Wrote:


 == Quote from Dan (murpsoft hotmail.com)'s article

 At the moment, Walnut cannot compile with DMD 1.21 or later because of some bug


 or unmentioned feature implemented in that version.  It has something to do
with

 struct Value {
   union {
    struct {}
    int i;
    bool b;
    char[] c;
   bla bla.
 }
 and later doing something with b.  I'd be able to say more, but the error


 message is 100% ambiguous and doesn't mention a file or line number.
 
 I worked on reducing the error to a small example, and I filed a related bug:
 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1738
 
 In the process of reducing the error, I guess I lost some of the context for
the
 error, but I think it seems to be related to the assignment of FALSE in
structure.d:




 Note that I'm not defending that DMD rejects your code. My bug report only
gives
 an example of an error message that should include a line number. I hope this
 helps, but it looks like the compiler is malfunctioning in a couple of ways
when
 it tries to process your code. I only identified one of the malfunctions (lack
of
 a line number).


Ah man.

So my program won't work with a modern compiler anymore, and I can't fix my
code because I don't know what's wrong with it because DMD doesn't give a
useful error message.  JCC was good enough to file a bug report for me, but he
got no reply for the last two weeks.

*sigh*

I know it's selfish, but perchance I could beg some help on my project?  I can
program okay, but I'm not good at all this project management stuff.

Sincerely,
Dan
Dec 31 2007
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
jcc7 Wrote:

 I worked on reducing the error to a small example, and I filed a related bug:
 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1738


This will be fixed on the next update.
Jan 01 2008
parent Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:
Walter Bright Wrote:


 jcc7 Wrote:

 I worked on reducing the error to a small example, and I filed a related bug:
 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1738


 
 This will be fixed on the next update.


Sweet.  Thanks Walter, I appreciate it.
Jan 01 2008