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Bug 782101 - Attempt to initialize variable-sized arrays
Attempt to initialize variable-sized arrays
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vala
Classification: Core
Component: Basic Types
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Vala maintainers
Vala maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-05-03 08:18 UTC by Andrei Zisu
Modified: 2018-05-22 15:49 UTC
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Description Andrei Zisu 2017-05-03 08:18:38 UTC 
The following snippet: 

const int width = 50;
const int height = 50;
uint8 drawbuf[width*height*3];

Vala attempts to transform into the following code: 

guint8 drawbuf[(width * height) * 3] = {0};

Throwing the following error: "variable-sized object may not be initialized", perhaps due to the {0} added there. 


Vala 0.34.7
Comment 1 Rico Tzschichholz 2017-05-03 09:48:08 UTC 
You may not define your constants inside a method-block.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 15:49:19 UTC 
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