readf() compiler error message weirdness (CTFE-related?)

[Andrew Wiley]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:48 AM, David Nadlinger <see at klickverbot.at> wrote:

> I have always been pleased to see improvements in compile time code
> execution possibilities, but today I hit what must be the weirdest DMD error
> message I've ever seen:
>
> /usr/local/bin/../include/d2/std/format.d(434): Error: can only
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>
> To be honest, I have no idea how this happens, but somehow DMD picked up
> the contents of the directory the source file, test.d, resides in. It looks
> like this (note the missing ampersand):
> ———
> import std.stdio;
> void main() {
>    int e;
>    readf( "%d", e );
> }
> ———
>
> Any idea what on earth could be going on here?
>
> David
>

On 64 bit linux (Arch, running dmd on a multilib installation), I get
"/usr/include/d/std/format.d(428): Error: can only * a pointer, not a 'int'"
It almost seems like something is expanding the * syntax in your shell?
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