Bug 22054 – Referencing a fwd-declared field results in many error messages
Status
RESOLVED
Resolution
FIXED
Severity
regression
Priority
P1
Component
dmd
Product
D
Version
D2
Platform
All
OS
All
Creation time
2021-06-21T03:43:55Z
Last change time
2021-07-08T10:04:14Z
Keywords
pull
Assigned to
No Owner
Creator
Mathias LANG
Comments
Comment #0 by pro.mathias.lang — 2021-06-21T03:43:55Z
```
class exception;
void main ()
{
assert(exception.what() == "Hello");
}
```
This results in:
```
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `opDot`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `opDispatch`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `at`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
what.d(1): Error: class `what.exception` is forward referenced when looking for `what`
```
Tested with DMD 2.097.0
Comment #1 by moonlightsentinel — 2021-06-21T10:52:35Z
Output before 2.071.2:
onlineapp.d(1): Error: class onlineapp.exception is forward referenced when looking for 'what'
onlineapp.d(5): Error: no property 'what' for type 'onlineapp.exception'
Comment #2 by dlang-bot — 2021-07-02T13:03:32Z
@RazvanN7 created dlang/dmd pull request #12801 "Fix Issue 22054 - Referencing a fwd-declared field results in many er" fixing this issue:
- Fix Issue 22054 - Referencing a fwd-declared field results in many error messages
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12801
Comment #3 by dlang-bot — 2021-07-08T10:04:14Z
dlang/dmd pull request #12801 "Fix Issue 22054 - Referencing a fwd-declared field results in many error messages" was merged into master:
- b03ae923ab8ffdd25d24365b3ea922dacc05a38c by RazvanN7:
Fix Issue 22054 - Referencing a fwd-declared field results in many error messages
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12801