CTFE Status 2

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 21:53:29 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 3/14/17 4:26 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Monday, 13 March 2017 at 19:40:30 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 21:05:51 UTC, Stefan Koch 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>> I just fixed a bug in ref support;
>>> It should now work with slices.
>>>
>>> I also made it _slightly_ easier to make ABI changes for 
>>> slice, since
>>> I expect the structure to change as soon as concat support is 
>>> added.
>>> (e.g. slices will get a refcount, capacity and an origin ptr)
>>
>> Bad news.
>> Array expansion via assignment to length regressed.
>> Fixing this is surprisingly time intensive.
>> .... I am just not seeing where it's going wrong.
>>
>> It seems to use completely bogus offsets ... causing it to 
>> read from
>> uninitialized memory.
>>
>
> Time to try valgrind ? Last time I checked it worked just fine 
> with D.
>
> ---
> Dmitry Olshansky

When I talk about uninitialized memory I mean memory inside the 
VM, which is untouched.
The Problem is a problem with bytecode generation, not the 
execution.
The code executes as it should, but the generated code is invalid.