VisualD: C++ to D stops with meaningless error message

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 15.11.2015 19:11, ParticlePeter wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 November 2015 at 16:23:07 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12.11.2015 17:07, ParticlePeter wrote:
>>> I am trying to convert the oscpkt.hh file from this c++ library:
>>> http://gruntthepeon.free.fr/oscpkt/
>>>
>>> The wizzard simply stops with this error message:
>>>
>>> oscpkt.hh
>>> E:\Code\Lib_CPP\oscpkt-1.2\oscpkt.hh(251): not parsed until the end of
>>> the file
>>> ----------------
>>> 1 of 1 files failed to parse, aborting
>>>
>>> What are the reason for such an error? What can be done about it?
>>>
>>> Cheers, ParticlePeter
>>
>> I tried the header file and noticed that all previous error messages
>> are lost when the parser completely bails out with the error given
>> above. I'll try to fix this.
>>
>> The bad trouble in this header comes from two issues:
>>
>> - the parser doesn't understand operator overloads, so you'd better
>> comment these. There is often no good replacement anyway.
>>
>> - the parser stumbles over namespaces in type names, e.g. std::vector.
>> you might get better results by replacing these with a single
>> identifier or just remove the namespace "std::".
>>
>> In the udp.hh header, there are a lot of "sizeof type" without
>> parenthesis. I wasn't aware that these are optional when I wrote the
>> parser, so they are mandatory ATM.
>
> Thanks for your reply, I just tried "oscpkt.hh" as starting point.
> I couldn't make heads or tails out of the error message, so the problem
> her would be line 247: operator bool() const { return isOk(); }
> instead of 251?
> How about adding the line itself to such an parse error message?
>
> Conversion succeeded, had some more errors but could fix them, thanks.

I fixed the suppressed error messages, it prefers a flood of error 
messages instead. The issues above should also be parsed correctly 
(though you'll propably need to replace "std.vector!(char)" with 
something else anyway). See

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases/tag/v0.3.43-rc1