Bug 2139 – Compiler rejects delegate of a static struct instance as non-constant

The following works. ---------------------------- struct S { static S s; } const foo = &S.s; ---------------------------- The following also works. ---------------------------- void f() {} const bar = &f; ---------------------------- The following, however, does not: ---------------------------- struct S { static S s; void f() {} } // error, non-constant expression S.s.f const baz = &S.s.f; ---------------------------- The compiler should be able to initialize baz at compile time, since baz is composed of the address of a statically-allocated struct and the address of a non-virtual function.

The compiler now errors in the first case: Error: cannot take address of thread-local variable s at compile time And in the third case: Error: static variable s cannot be read at compile time The second case compiles.