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Bug 4772 – DMD allows "dereferencing" arrays as if it were a pointer to first element

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: DUPLICATE
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: Other
OS: Windows
Creation time: 2010-08-31T04:32:00Z
Last change time: 2012-01-29T03:37:16Z
Keywords: accepts-invalid
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: 2korden

Comments

Comment #0 by 2korden — 2010-08-31T04:32:44Z

import std.stdio; void main() { string foo = "foo"; int[] bar = [ 42 ]; writeln(*foo, *bar); // prints "f42" } I don't think this is intended and should be disallowed.

Comment #1 by bearophile_hugs — 2010-08-31T10:31:28Z

See bug 3990

Comment #2 by yebblies — 2012-01-29T03:37:16Z

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 3990 ***