CTFE Status 2

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 20:49:58 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 21:05:51 UTC, Stefan Koch 
> wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>
> Hi Guys :)
>
> I am currently fixing a bug involving complex members of structs
> (where complex means (slice, struct, array or pointer))
> I did expect them to be broken ...
> but not to be _that_ broken :)
>
> struct S
> {
>     uint[] slice;
> }
>
> uint fn()
> {
>   S s;
>   s.slice.length = 12;
>   return cast(uint)s.slice.length;
> }
>
> static assert(fn() == 12);
> This code will not work because s.slice has no elementType :)
> (which does not mean it has the s.slice[0] has the type void)
> newCTFE literally looses the type information somewhere.
>
> And people wonder why I don't like mondays :)

I found out that slice was never allocated :)
This is an orthogonal problem, but it's fixed now.

The problem from the above post still remains.
And I still don't know why it happens.