Harbs,

+1 for a new committer! :)

Piotr

2018-05-01 19:44 GMT+02:00 Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com>:

> Yeah. I was planning on spending time on the compiler, but time has not
> been recently as forthcoming as I was hoping… ;-)
>
> FWIW, my daughter is finishing school soon and I’m going to have her try
> and learn the compiler. I’ll see how that goes…
>
> Harbs
>
> > On May 1, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry,  I thought the link was to the source so I didn't click on it.
> >
> > This could be a good exercise for anyone wanting to learn more about the
> compiler to figure out how to catch this situation (maybe by detecting the
> AST for "void 0") and outputting an error instead of an NPE, or swapping in
> "undefined".
> >
> > -Alex
> >
> > On 5/1/18, 9:35 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >    I attached a paste of the stack in my email.
> >
> >    I just finished resolving all my errors. It was hard to trace them
> down, but I just discovered that there were uses of "void 0" in the code. I
> replaced all those cases with “undefined" and poof! All my errors went
> away! :-)
> >
> >    My theory is that use of void 0 was confusing the compiler and
> causing errors elsewhere… I’m not sure how to demonstrate this…
> >
> >    Harbs
> >
> >    (P.S. Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately. Life has been pretty busy… ;) )
> >
> >> On May 1, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the call stack for the null pointer?
> >>
> >> On 5/1/18, 5:05 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>   I’m trying to compile a library using comic and I’m getting a **LOT**
> of null pointer errors. They seem to be related to missing type
> information, although I’m not completely sure why the missing type
> information is causing these errors.
> >>
> >>   Some of the errors are resolved-able by adding type info, but not all.
> >>
> >>   I picked one at random to track down the issue:
> >>   https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=
> https%3A%2F%2Fpaste.apache.org%2F8pLB&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%
> 7C31fb16c8d65948a50da008d5af5bd2c6%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178de
> cee1%7C0%7C0%7C636607731304191116&sdata=ik%2FnmWaooQD%
> 2BwLT6VM1JN1ypa4BdOXe8VS1NfyF5FUw%3D&reserved=0 <https://na01.safelinks.
> protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpaste.apache.
> org%2F8pLB&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%
> 7C31fb16c8d65948a50da008d5af5bd2c6%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178de
> cee1%7C0%7C0%7C636607731304191116&sdata=ik%2FnmWaooQD%
> 2BwLT6VM1JN1ypa4BdOXe8VS1NfyF5FUw%3D&reserved=0>
> >>
> >>   The line in question looks like this:
> >>   var codepoint:int = glyphs[i].codePoints[0];
> >>
> >>   glyphs[I] is a “GlyphInfo” instance. Either of the following two
> changes make this particular error go away:
> >>   var codepoint:* = glyphs[i].codePoints[0];
> >>   var codepoint:int = (glyphs[i] as GlyphInfo).codePoints[0];
> >>
> >>   I’m not really sure why these changes are necessary though…
> >>
> >>   Thoughts?
> >>   Harbs
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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