digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 15412] New: Operator ^^= fails to compile for many numeric
- via Digitalmars-d-bugs (49/49) Dec 05 2015 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15412
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15412 Issue ID: 15412 Summary: Operator ^^= fails to compile for many numeric type combinations Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: thomas.bockman gmail.com This code: N n; M m; n ^^ = m; Seems to be lowered to this: N n; M m; n = pow(n, m); For many numeric type combinations, this will fail to compile, yielding "Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (pow(cast(N)n, cast(M)m)) of type R to N", where R is some other numeric type. In particular, operator ^^= is completely unusable with byte, ubyte, short, and ushort, since for those types pow returns int, which cannot be implicitly converted to a lesser type. The fix is to include an explicit cast in the lowering: N n; M m; n = cast(N) pow(n, m); This would make the behaviour of ^^= consistent with the other assignment operators (like *=) which do not have this problem. // Full test code /////////////////////////////////// import std.traits : NumericTypeList; import std.stdio; void main(string[] args) { foreach(N; NumericTypeList) { foreach(M; NumericTypeList) { N n = 1; M m = 1; if(!__traits(compiles, n += m)) writeln(N.stringof ~ " ^^= " ~ M.stringof ~ " fails to compile."); } } } --
Dec 05 2015