http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9744

           Summary: shared and __gshared variables can have their address
                    taken at compile time
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: clugdbug@yahoo.com.au


--- Comment #0 from Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> 2013-03-18 02:58:09 PDT ---
Taking the address of a static variable is rejected, but not a __gshared variable:

---
__gshared int x1;
static int x2;
static void *q1 = &x1;    // Compiles
static void *q2 = &x2;    // Rejected
---

bug.d(4): Error: non-constant expression & x2


This doesn't apply in CTFE, only in constant folding.

There is a unittest in bitmanip which relies on this bug.

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--- Comment #1 from Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> 2013-03-18 03:09:01 PDT ---
Or perhaps the correct behaviour would be to allow shared and __gshared to have their address taken in all cases (including CTFE), and to generate an error "cannot take the address of a thread-local variable at compile time" for static variables.

Currently, the error is generated in the glue layer, which is wrong.

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Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Keywords|accepts-invalid             |diagnostic
            Summary|shared and __gshared        |Poor error message taking
                   |variables can have their    |address of thread-local
                   |address taken at compile    |variable at compile time
                   |time                        |


--- Comment #2 from Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> 2013-03-18 03:54:33 PDT ---
I'm splitting this bug report into two parts. This one becomes a diagnostic
error message for the thread-local case.
The second will be a CTFE enhancement, to allow taking the address of static
variables inside CTFE.

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--- Comment #3 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com 2013-03-30 21:51:56 PDT ---
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/7aa4ef0974cc9ffe2267883c2e98bf00d5285cba
Fix issue 9744 Poor error message taking address of thread-local variable at
compile time

Move the error message from the glue layer, into the interpreter. Also fix an incorrect entry point into the glue layer.

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Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla@digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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