From: Juerg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:17:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: any reference or array type or pointer type can be cast to a generic
X-Git-Tag: VALA_0_1_1~12
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e41d9f6db3e11c498c09ff1019bb53821004adba;p=thirdparty%2Fvala.git

any reference or array type or pointer type can be cast to a generic

2007-07-11  Juerg Billeter  <j@bitron.ch>

	* vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala: any reference or array type or pointer
	  type can be cast to a generic pointer

svn path=/trunk/; revision=343
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e1e020089..a6250e350 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-07-11  Jürg Billeter  <j@bitron.ch>
+
+	* vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala: any reference or array type or pointer
+	  type can be cast to a generic pointer
+
 2007-07-11  Jürg Billeter  <j@bitron.ch>
 
 	* vapi/libxml-2.0.vala: expand libxml2 bindings,
diff --git a/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala b/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala
index 12375d712..1a1b61e7d 100644
--- a/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala
+++ b/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala
@@ -1175,6 +1175,19 @@ public class Vala.SemanticAnalyzer : CodeVisitor {
 			return false;
 		}
 
+		if (expected_type.data_type == pointer_type) {
+			/* any reference or array type or pointer type can be cast to a generic pointer */
+			if (expression_type.type_parameter != null ||
+			    expression_type.data_type.is_reference_type () ||
+			    expression_type.data_type is Pointer ||
+			    expression_type.data_type is Array ||
+			    expression_type.data_type is Callback) {
+				return true;
+			}
+
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		/* temporarily ignore type parameters */
 		if (expected_type.type_parameter != null) {
 			return true;