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Issue 3635 - Arrays of pointers to forward declared structs fail to compile
Summary: Arrays of pointers to forward declared structs fail to compile
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dmd (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Assignee: No Owner
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Keywords: rejects-valid
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Reported: 2009-12-19 19:53 UTC by siegelords_abode
Modified: 2015-06-09 05:11 UTC (History)
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Description siegelords_abode 2009-12-19 19:53:40 UTC 
Arrays of pointers to forward declared structs issue compile-time errors in dmd 1.053 (and possibly others). Code to reproduce this bug:

struct Struct;

void main()
{
   Struct*[] arr;
   arr.length = 1;
}

Workabouts:
Use an associative array.
Declare struct as struct Struct {}; (might not be foolproof, but works for me)
Comment 1 hsteoh 2014-11-18 04:46:41 UTC 
Tested on git HEAD, Linux/64. Could not reproduce compile errors. Please reopen if the problem still exists on other platforms / test cases.