TDPL error(s)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/8/11 8:59 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On page 263, TDPL states that struct objects nested inside a function cannot
> be returned, because the caller does not have access to their types. Using the
> auto keyword, DMD lets you do this though. Is this a bug in DMD or an error in
> TDPL?

Bug in TDPL.

> On the same page, the assert should be
> assert(Local.sizeof == size_t.sizeof + int.sizeof);
>
> rather than
> assert(Local.sizeof == 2*size_t.sizeof);
>
> which always fails in 64 bit.

Thanks, added to the errata: http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata


Andrei