Strange DMD Assertion failure

[Deewiant]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Chris Miller wrote:
>> Compiling code that worked fine with DMD 0.160 now fails on DMD 0.161
>> with the following compiler error:
>>    Assertion failure: 'next' on line 2226 in file 'mtype.c'
>>
>> Looking at mtype.c I notice the assert makes sure 'next' is not null,
>> but on the next line it checks 'next' for null and acts appropriately;
>> also, in the same function of DMD 0.160 this null check is not there,
>> only the assert, so it leads me to believe that perhaps the new
>> compiler now allows a null 'next' but the assert was left accidentally.
>>
>> I tried simplifying my code to make a small reproducable example, but
>> this project is huge and the changes were causing template mixin
>> forward reference errors. Compiling with -v shows it fails on the
>> first semantic pass.
> 
> There's no way to track this down without a reproducible test case.

Have a look at Carlos Santander's post "ice returning a delegate".