Thread overview
[Issue 21098] poor diagnostic when trying to assign a string literal to a `char*`
Jul 31, 2020
Basile-z
Aug 21, 2020
Dlang Bot
Mar 18, 2021
Basile-z
July 31, 2020
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21098

Basile-z <b2.temp@gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|poor diagnostic when trying |poor diagnostic when trying
                   |to assign a `string` to a   |to assign a string literal
                   |`char*`                     |to a `char*`

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August 21, 2020
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21098

Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |pull

--- Comment #1 from Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> ---
@NilsLankila created dlang/dmd pull request #11602 "fix issue 21098 - Add specific diagnostic for failed assign from StringExp" fixing this issue:

- fix issue 21098 - Add specific diagnostic for failed assign from StringExp

  Because assigning a literal to `char*` or a `char[]` is almost correct, add a
supplemental error message that suggests to use a const/immtable type.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/11602

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March 18, 2021
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21098

Basile-z <b2.temp@gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Basile-z <b2.temp@gmx.com> ---
The PR did not encounter much success and this is a minor problem anyway.

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