Is this a bug?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 06:33:28PM -0500, Jerry wrote:
> If I read correctly, the following is legal code.  If you comment out
> one of the case statements, it does the expected thing.  With 4 or more,
> it crashes.  This is with dmd 2.064.2 on Debian.
> 
> If it's a bug, I'll file a report.  Thanks!
> 
> class BB {}
> class DD : CC {}
> class CC : BB {
>   static CC create(string s) {
>     // Succeeds with 3 cases, fails with 4
>     switch (s) {
>     case "en":
>     case "it":
>     case "ru":
>     case "ko": return new DD;
>     default: throw new Exception("blech");
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> void main() {
>     CC.create("en");
> }
> 
> jlquinn at wyvern:~/d$ ~/dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd switchbug.d -g
> jlquinn at wyvern:~/d$ ./switchbug 
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[...]

No crash on dmd git HEAD, Debian/unstable (x86_64).


T

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