[dmd-beta] rvalue references

[Sean Kelly]

On Apr 13, 2012, at 1:48 PM, "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Friday, April 13, 2012 22:18:16 Don Clugston wrote:
>> Interestingly, the ref int[3] idiom is documented as working, under
>> 'interfacing with C'.
>> Anything beyond that seems to be undefined.
>> That page seems to document dynamic arrays as _not_ working --
>> certainly as having no C equivalent.
> 
> Which seems really backwards considering that in both case, you'd be using T* 
> in C, and if anything, dynamic arrays are closer to that than static arrays. 
> Personally, I'd have expected arr.ptr to be required in both cases.

The problem is mostly with stuff like:

extern (C):
alias int[2] foo;
void fn(foo);

Now make the alias platform-dependent (as in the Posix package) and tell me what the prototype for fn() should be. Fortunately, static array args are almost nonexistent in C99 and Posix.