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Bug 7504 – Cannot assign an object of type 'typeof(null)' to an array

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2012-02-15T03:50:00Z
Last change time: 2013-10-08T20:55:21Z
Keywords: pull
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: kennytm

Comments

Comment #0 by kennytm — 2012-02-15T03:50:59Z

Test case: void test7504() { auto n = null; char[] k = n; // even 'cast(char[])n' won't work. } Note that this goes against bug 3889, but [] doesn't work either because it is of type 'void[]' (see bug 5416), although 'cast(char[])emptyArray' would work in that case.

Comment #1 by kennytm — 2012-02-15T06:37:10Z

DMD pull #723. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/723

Comment #2 by github-bugzilla — 2012-02-18T12:41:11Z

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/97cda9f789b36afb6a790b8219aade3d6ce21946 Merge pull request #723 from kennytm/bug7504_null_array Bug 7504: Cannot assign an object of type 'typeof(null)' to an array

Comment #3 by github-bugzilla — 2013-10-08T20:55:21Z

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/e2dac18b9481b0f3d2a0a06865d179ae44d36705 Move Issue 7504 test case to runnable/casting.d