dmd 1.063 and 2.048 release

[Yao G.]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:09:40 -0500, dickl <dick221z at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 8/11/2010 1:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> dickl wrote:
>>> I should have been a little more clear, a static this() as a member of
>>> a class.
>>
>> Still works:
>> --------------------------
>>
>> H:\cbx>type test.d
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> printf("hello\n");
>> }
>>
>> class C
>> {
>> static this()
>> {
>> printf("betty\n");
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> H:\cbx>dmd test
>>
>> H:\cbx>test
>> betty
>> hello
>>
>> H:\cbx>
>
> Looks like it might be windows specific. This doesn't work (only prints  
> out "again"
>
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.string;
> import std.c.windows.windows;
> import core.runtime;
>
>
> extern (Windows) int WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,HINSTANCE  
> hPrevInstance,LPSTR lpCmdLine,int nCmdShow)
> {
>
>      try
>      {
>          Runtime.initialize();
>          return myWinMain(hInstance, hPrevInstance, lpCmdLine, nCmdShow);
>
>
> 	}//end try
>
>      catch (Object o)		// catch any uncaught exceptions
>      {
> 		MessageBoxA(null, toStringz(o.toString()), "Fatal Error", MB_OK |  
> MB_ICONERROR);
>      }finally
>      {
>          Runtime.terminate();
>      }
>
>
>      return 0;
> }//end int WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,LPSTR  
> lpCmdLine,int nCmdShow)
>
>
> int myWinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR  
> lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
> {
>
> 		foo f = new foo;
> 	
> 		return 1;
> }//end int myWinMain HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR  
> lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
>
>
> class foo
> {
> public:
> 	static this()
> 	{
> 		writeln("Hello");
> 	}
> 	static ~this()
>       {
> 	}
> 	this()
> 	{
> 		writefln(" again");
> 	}
> }
>
>

You are mixing windows specific functions (WinMain) and console functions  
(writeln). This will either cause an exception or just fail to run. Try to  
replace calls to writeln with calls to MessageBox if you want to check if  
the static constructor/destructor is working correctly.

-- 
Yao G.