Hi

I need to initialize a global variable with a pointer to another global variable but dmd compler raises an error:

uint a = 5;
uint* p = &a; // error: non-constant expression & a
const uint* cp = &a; // error: non-constant expression & a

All C compilers support this assignation ¿whi dlang cannot?

I think this is a great limitation for writing huge dependent of initial-state defined program as a virtual machine (in this case).

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Just try it with ldc, appears to work. I'm also compiling gdc for test with it.


Thanks,

On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 20:16:54 UTC, JDavidls wrote:
> I need to initialize a global variable with a pointer to another global variable but dmd compler raises an error:

That's because a is not a global variable, it is thread local.

Try:

__gshared uint a = 5;

On 02/04/2013 12:16 PM, JDavidls wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to initialize a global variable with a pointer to another global
> variable but dmd compler raises an error:
>
> uint a = 5;
> uint* p = &a; // error: non-constant expression & a
> const uint* cp = &a; // error: non-constant expression & a
>
> All C compilers support this assignation ¿whi dlang cannot?
>
> I think this is a great limitation for writing huge dependent of
> initial-state defined program as a virtual machine (in this case).
>
> ---
>
> Just try it with ldc, appears to work. I'm also compiling gdc for test
> with it.
>
>
> Thanks,

Another option is to initialize in a 'static this()' block:

uint a = 5;
uint* p;
const uint* cp;

static this()
{
    p = &a;
    cp = &a;
}

Ali

> That's because a is not a global variable, it is thread local.

Oh, thanks