Bug 1884 – manifest constants for strings

The code below does not work as I expected it to. //----------------- import std.stdio; void main() { enum string foo = "qwerty"; std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", foo); foreach(int i, char c; foo) writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); enum fob = "qwerty"; std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", fob); foreach(int i, char c; fob) writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); const bar = "qwerty"; std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", bar); foreach(int i, char c; bar) writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); } //----------------- I was expecting three identical strings to printout plus each character to be correct. Instead I got this ... 'qwerty' [0]176 [1]236 [2]65 ' ÿý' [0]0 [1]0 [2]0 [3]0 [4]152 [5]236 'qwerty' [0]113 [1]119 [2]101 [3]114 [4]116 [5]121 Which seems to me that only the form "const x " works.

And if you think that was stringe, try this example ... //------------- import std.stdio; void main() { enum string foo = "qwerty"; std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", foo); foreach(int i, char c; foo) writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); enum fob = "qwerty"; std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", fob); foreach(int i, char c; fob) writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); const bar = "qwerty"; std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", bar); foreach(int i, char c; bar) writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", "qwerty"); foreach(int i, char c; "qwerty") writefln("[%s]%s", i, cast(int)c); } //---------

Looks like it's related to 1794. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1794

Fixed dmd 2.012

What I assume is the same issue still occurs within structs as of 2.012 e.g. //----------------- import std.stdio; struct Test { public string Text; } enum Test test = { Text: "test" }; void main() { std.stdio.writefln(test); } //----------------- This results in the following output: ' âA ÓâA `äA ►ëA └ëA øA á£A ►×A ǃA ñA ­ñA ­ªA '

Sorry that should have been "std.stdio.writefln("'%s'", test.Text);".

Neil's bug is actually totally different, and not related to strings in any way.--> Bug #2850. The original bug is fixed.