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Bug 22755 – ImportC: declared symbol must be available in initializer

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Severity: major
Priority: P1
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2022-02-10T10:30:27Z
Last change time: 2022-02-14T09:13:36Z
Keywords: ImportC, pull, rejects-valid
Assigned to: No Owner
Creator: dave287091

Comments

Comment #0 by dave287091 — 2022-02-10T10:30:27Z

This common C idiom fails to compile: void* malloc(unsigned long); int main(){ int* p = malloc(sizeof *p); // Error: can only `*` a pointer, not a `void` }

Comment #1 by dave287091 — 2022-02-12T20:11:03Z

The above still fails to compile, but the error message has changed to “undefined identifier `p`”.

Comment #2 by dlang-bot — 2022-02-14T08:20:00Z

@WalterBright created dlang/dmd pull request #13650 "fix Issue 22755 - ImportC: declared symbol must be available in initi…" fixing this issue: - fix Issue 22755 - ImportC: declared symbol must be available in initializer https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13650

Comment #3 by dlang-bot — 2022-02-14T09:13:36Z

dlang/dmd pull request #13650 "fix Issue 22755 - ImportC: declared symbol must be available in initi…" was merged into master: - b206e67847c4db4cb394103d1251743452711251 by Walter Bright: fix Issue 22755 - ImportC: declared symbol must be available in initializer https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13650