[Issue 240] New: No file or line information in error message "cannot implicitly convert expression (-1) of type ulong to double"

[Derek Parnell]

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On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:10:58 +0200, Thomas Kuehne wrote:

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> d-bugmail at puremagic.com schrieb am 2006-07-05:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=240
> 
>> The error message from compiling the following code does not give any
>> file or line information. In large projects, not having the file and
>> line information makes finding the error difficult.
>>
>> Code:
>> void main() {
>>         double maxValue = ulong.max;
>> }
>>
>> Command:
>> dmd tmp.d
>>
>> Output:
>> cannot implicitly convert expression (-1) of type ulong to double
> 
> Can anybody reproduce this issue? DMD-0.162 on Linux behaved as expected
> and didn't produce any error messages.

Problem in Windows environment (Win XP SP2) ...

c:\temp>type test1.d
void main() {
       double maxValue = ulong.max;
}

c:\temp>dmd test1.d
cannot implicitly convert expression (-1) of type ulong to double

c:\temp>dmd
Digital Mars D Compiler v0.162
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright

c:\temp>

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Derek
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Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocrity!"
7/07/2006 4:14:16 PM

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