Ok. So i've been trying to build Phobos with my new DI generation code
(available here: https://github.com/LightBender/dmd.git) and i've run into
an interesting usage of shared in the D Runtime. Namely, it has no type.
I've been told that this is not correct and it should have a type. Is that
correct?
Currently the source file (stdio.d in the DRT) has this in it and it
compiles successfully:
private extern shared FILE[_NFILE] _iob;
shared stdin = &_iob[0];
shared stdout = &_iob[1];
shared stderr = &_iob[2];
shared stdaux = &_iob[3];
shared stdprn = &_iob[4];
With the new DI generation code stdio.di contains this:
private extern shared FILE[_NFILE] _iob;
shared stdin; (Errors here and all subsequent lines in this snippet)
shared stdout;
shared stderr;
shared stdaux;
shared stdprn;
Is D doing some kind of type inference based on the type of the _iob
variable in the first example that causes DMD to throw an error with the
"= &_iob[0];" part removed?
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