Hi Jordan,
Thanks for your reply. I tried the `dyn_cast<ParenExpr>(src)`, but it
gives me null. Here's what I've added:
bool TypeChecker::diagnoseSelfAssignment(const Expr *E) {
...
auto src = AE->getSrc();
auto parenSrc = dyn_cast<ParenExpr>(src);
if (parenSrc)
return false;
...
}
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com> wrote:
> Hi, Halen. Welcome to the compiler. :-) What you're seeing is that we don't
> usually use C++'s normal RTTI mechanism, but instead go with a "Kind" field
> that's checked by the custom 'cast', 'dyn_cast', and 'isa' functions. (More
> information in the LLVM Programmer's Manual.) The debugger doesn't know
> about this, so it just always shows the base class to be conservative. If
> you're debugging, you can call dump() to see what kind of Expr it really is,
> and then cast the pointer down to the right type as needed. In your actual
> code, you can check `isa<ParenExpr>(src)`, or `dyn_cast<ParenExpr>(src)` if
> you then need to manipulate the ParenExpr.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jordan
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2017, at 15:30, Halen Wooten via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi swift devs,
>
> I'm working on SR-4464 to learn how to contribute to Swift. I think I
> have the solution, but I'm getting unexpected results.
>
> I'm using the swift repl within Xcode for testing. Here's my test code.
>
> var name = "name"
> name = (name)
>
> In TypeChecker::diagnoseSelfAssignment in CSDiag.cpp, the src of the
> AssignExpr is a plain Expr *, but I would expect it to be a ParenExpr
> *. Could someone help me figure out what's happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Halen
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