Beta problems... 'this' pointer in union?

[Era Scarecrow]

On Sunday, 30 December 2012 at 03:43:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> For any bugs that you find in the beta, bring them up in the 
> beta list and create bug reports for them in bugzilla: 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues

  Will do


> Looking at the code though, I'm shocked to see a function 
> declaration in a union. I wouldn't have thought that that was 
> legal. But maybe that's why the static assertions are failing.

  Not my original idea; Actually it's part of a previous test case 
from std/format.d lines: 684-695. The original test case is 
actually to make sure that with no defaults that it doesn't try 
to set a default of throwing a 'overlapping initialization' error.

[quote]
   else
   {
     union
     {
       mixin(bitfields!(
             bool, "flDash", 1,
             bool, "flZero", 1,
             bool, "flSpace", 1,
             bool, "flPlus", 1,
             bool, "flHash", 1,
             ubyte, "", 3));
       ubyte allFlags;
     }
   }
[/quote]