Report error when trying to create instance of static class, patch by

2008-05-08  Juerg Billeter  <j@bitron.ch>

	* vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala:

	Report error when trying to create instance of static class,
	patch by Andreas Brauchli, fixes bug 516779

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1342

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cdccbaae9300cfcbe0bda3aca021a7f517b36de0..5a4723658fecf4d58e3e64dd0777619ed4c267bf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-05-08  Jürg Billeter  <j@bitron.ch>
+
+       * vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala:
+
+       Report error when trying to create instance of static class,
+       patch by Andreas Brauchli, fixes bug 516779
+
 2008-05-08  Jürg Billeter  <j@bitron.ch>
 
        * vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala:

diff --git a/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala b/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala
index e594fda557dc569afb492edd97f759bc57aba817..6264f963b4db6351bda97e5428b7fe09ec2eb787 100644 (file)
--- a/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala
+++ b/vala/valasemanticanalyzer.vala
@@ -2334,6 +2334,13 @@ public class Vala.SemanticAnalyzer : CodeVisitor {
                                return;
                        }
 
+                       if (cl.is_static) {
+                               expr.static_type = null;
+                               expr.error = true;
+                               Report.error (expr.source_reference, "Can't create instance of static class `%s'".printf (cl.get_full_name ()));
+                               return;
+                       }
+
                        if (expr.symbol_reference == null) {
                                expr.symbol_reference = cl.default_construction_method;
                        }