[DGD] Bugz

[Felix A. Croes]

Blain <blain20 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Error 1:
> [Compile] /sys/lib/user/api/io[18]: syntax error
>
> Error 2:
> [Compile] /sys/lib/user/api/io[20]: undeclared variable INHERITABLE_SUBDIR
>
>
> Error 1 isn't very helpful, to say the least.

That's what you get when playing with macros.  That said, I knew I should
never have made the subdirs configurable with macros. :(


> I stumbled upon error 2
> while working with Shentino to figure out what the syntax error was exactly.

A perfectly reasonable errormessage.


> After fixing that, I get a second problem that is a bit more important.  I
> can't set an object to this type-forced object.  I can work around it by
> checking inheritance outside of the funcspec, though.
>
> Test 1:
> #include <config.h>
> #include <kernel/user.h>
>
> private object user;
>
> void start(object LIB_USER new_user)
>   if(user && new_user != user)     (<< line 22)
>
> Error 1:
> [Compile] /sys/lib/user/api/io[22]: incompatible types for equality
> (object, object)

This is a genuine problem.  However, you can just declare the global
variable in the same way:

    private void object LIB_USER user;

Regards,
Felix Croes