Sorry, I made a dumb mistake but couldn't see it.
Regards
Chris Saunders
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Saunders
To: Eiffel Software Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:50 PM
Subject: [eiffel_software] Looking for advice on making a bug report
This strikes me as a compiler bug but I'm not sure so please advise. I have
a class that contains some functions that are interfaces to the Windows API
and here is one of the functions from that class:
get_sid_sub_authority (p_sid: POINTER; n_sub_authority: NATURAL_32):
TYPED_POINTER [NATURAL_32]
-- Returns a pointer to a specified subauthority in a security identifier
(SID). The subauthority value is a relative identifier (RID).
external
"C inline use <Windows.h>"
alias
"[
return (PSID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY)GetSidSubAuthority((PSID)$p_sid,
(DWORD)$n_sub_authority);
]"
end
Now I have a function in another class that attempts to use the one above:
sub_authority (sub_authority_number: NATURAL_32): TYPED_POINTER
[NATURAL_32]
-- Pointer to a specified subauthority in a security identifier (SID).
-- The subauthority value is a relative identifier (RID).
do
Result := c_sub_authority ({SID_FUNCTIONS}.get_sid_sub_authority (item,
sub_authority_number))
end
When I attempt to compile this I get the error:
2 VJAR: Source of assignment is not compatible with target.
SID.sub_authority (wel_file) 57, 4
Error code: VJAR
Type error: source of assignment is not compatible with target.
What to do: make sure that type of source (right-hand side)
is compatible with type of target.
Class: SID
Feature: sub_authority
Target name: Result
Target type: TYPED_POINTER [NATURAL_32]
Source type: POINTER
Line: 57
do
-> Result := c_sub_authority ({SID_FUNCTIONS}.get_sid_sub_authority
(item, sub_authority_number))
end
I could be wrong, but this error seems to me incorrect. Should I make a bug
report on this?
Regards
Chris Saunders
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