From: Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 19:19:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Make address-of operator work on all variables
X-Git-Tag: 0.11.1~188
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a36fe4be766c0b5f14cd1bf1f75b9e2ddc77e76c;p=thirdparty%2Fvala.git

Make address-of operator work on all variables

Fixes bug 631247.
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diff --git a/vala/valaaddressofexpression.vala b/vala/valaaddressofexpression.vala
index cda53ed5e..6ac0b1e1b 100644
--- a/vala/valaaddressofexpression.vala
+++ b/vala/valaaddressofexpression.vala
@@ -83,10 +83,11 @@ public class Vala.AddressofExpression : Expression {
 			error = true;
 			return false;
 		}
-		if (!(inner.value_type is ValueType
-		      || inner.value_type is ObjectType
-		      || inner.value_type is PointerType
-		      || inner.value_type is GenericType)) {
+		if (inner is MemberAccess && inner.symbol_reference is Variable) {
+			// address of variable is always possible
+		} else if (inner is ElementAccess && ((ElementAccess) inner).container.value_type is ArrayType) {
+			// address of element of regular array is always possible
+		} else {
 			error = true;
 			Report.error (source_reference, "Address-of operator not supported for this expression");
 			return false;