Array void init

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 06:43:58 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 05:29:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:58:34 -0700, Luís Marques 
> <luismarques at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Should this be supported?
>>
>>     double[8] foo = [1.0, 2.0, void, 3.0, 3.5, void, void, 
>> void];
>>
>> (it's not supported at the moment)
>
> Have you considered what this does?  Consider a standard [1.0, 
> 2.0] call:
>
> In essence, it pushes 1.0 and 2.0 onto the stack, then calls a 
> function to allocate the memory and use the given data.
>
> What will end up happening is the data is copied from the stack 
> to the heap.  It's just in your case, the data copied is 
> garbage.  I see little point in supporting this.
>
> -Steve

That is an implementation detail.


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