• d-bugmail puremagic.com Dec 09 2011

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7087

           Summary: Produce compiler diagnostic when escaping slice to
                    local static array
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86_64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: acehreli yahoo.com


--- Comment #0 from Ali Cehreli <acehreli yahoo.com> 2011-12-09 15:34:52 PST ---
Although both are "escaping reference to local" data, only one of the following
functions produces a compilation error.

int * ret_elem_ptr()
{
    int[3] a;
    return &a[0];   // GOOD: compilation ERROR
}

int[] ret_slice()
{
    int[3] a;
    return a[];     // BAD: no help
}

void main()
{}

It would be nice to receive a compilation error when returning a slice as well.
This would catch bugs, because programmers rely on slices' keeping their data
alive in most situation. Unfortunately that's not the case here.

Ali

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