bug covering other bug

[Martin Nowak]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:16:42 +0200, Mariusz Gliwiński  
<alienballance at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> firstly - i'm sorry that i'm not posting it directly to bugtracker but i  
> highly
> care about this issue.
>
> So, on my Linux x64 dmd 2.53 & 2.54, while hunting another bug (i already
> highly doubt it's my) - i've found this one:
> <code>
> private import std.stdio;
>
> class T {
> 	@property {
> 		float[3] scale() {
> 			return [1, 2, 3];
> 		}
> 		void scale(float[3] value) {
> 			float tx = 1;
> 			writeln(tx, " ", tx, " ", tx,
> 				tx, " ", tx, " ", tx,
> 				tx, " ", tx, " ", tx);
> 		}
> 	}
> }
>
> void main() {
> 	auto t = new T;
> 	t.scale = [1, 2, 3];
> }
> </code>
> Compilation results in segmentation fault.
> Another problem i'm searching for, is something with interfacing to C,  
> pointer
> to floats and properties and/or aliasing. NVM
>
> Could someone point me that i'm doing something wrong, so it would give  
> me
> motivation to fight with all this bugs more?
>
> Because i'm already lacking of mental power when struggling with this  
> massive
> bug'osis while writing (hopefully)  project of my live.
>
> Awareness that i would make what i already did in C++ much faster  
> (because of
> bugs and libs, not a language) slowly stops being recompensated by  
> elegance of
> code i can write with D and highly skilled community as you are.
>
> What's your opinion?
>
> Sincerely,
> Mariusz Gliwiński

Thanks, I've reduced this and created a bug report.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6563
It has to do with the ABI64 calling convention. The part in the backend is  
much
newer than the 32 bit version and has a few remaining bugs. On the other  
hand I've not stumbled
over something in the past few month.
I'll have a look, it smells like a simple fix.

martin