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Issue 16981 - [Reg 2.073] assigning class or struct pointers to enum became an error
Summary: [Reg 2.073] assigning class or struct pointers to enum became an error
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dmd (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P1 regression
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Reported: 2016-12-18 18:11 UTC by Martin Nowak
Modified: 2017-01-17 23:35 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Nowak 2016-12-18 18:11:38 UTC 
cat > bug.d << CODE
void bug()
{
    import std.regex : ctRegex;
    enum te = ctRegex!("a");
}
CODE
dmd -c -o- bug
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bug.d(4): Error: variable bug.bug.te : Unable to initialize enum with class or pointer to struct. Use static const variable instead.
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Works without deprecation in 2.072.1.
Comment 1 Martin Nowak 2016-12-18 18:12:33 UTC 
Also see issue 11697.
Comment 2 Martin Nowak 2017-01-17 23:35:29 UTC 
This was an uncatched error with undefined behavior beforehand, see issue 15989 and https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6164.