Sure enough bitfields is a strange beast and I ran into some subtleties
with purity and nothrow.
Consider the following code :
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struct POD {
int a;
}
int getA(POD o) pure nothrow {
return o.a;
}
POD setA(POD o, int value) pure nothrow {
o.a = value;
return o;
}
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It compiles fine. But now with a bitfield :
struct POD {
mixin(std.bitmanip.bitfields!(
int, "a",10,
int, "", 22));
}
The compiler complains about missing pure and nothrow attributes
Error: pure function 'getA' cannot call impure function 'a'
Error: o.a is not nothrow
Error: function test.getA 'getA' is nothrow yet may throw
Error: pure function 'setA' cannot call impure function 'a'
Error: o.a is not nothrow
Error: function test.setA 'setA' is nothrow yet may throw
Which makes sense as the mixin outputs :
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@property uint a() const {
auto result = (_a_ & 1023U) >>0U;
return cast(uint) result;
}
@property void a(uint v){
assert(v >= a_min);
assert(v <= a_max);
_a_ = cast(typeof(_a_))
((_a_ & ~1023U) | ((cast(typeof(_a_)) v << 0U) & 1023U));
}
enum uint a_min = cast(uint)0U;
enum uint a_max = cast(uint)1023U;
private uint _a_;
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IMHO getters and setters could be nothrow but what about purity ? Looks
like it's a bit far-fetched to qualify member methods as pure right ?
Yet it makes sense regarding the semantic. What's your take on that ?
