[Mono-bugs] [Bug 32925][Maj] New - Casting to a pointer which isn't a standard type causes CS1002 error.

[bugzilla-daemon@rocky.ximian.com]

Please do not reply to this email- if you want to comment on the bug, go to the
URL shown below and enter your comments there.

Changed by alan@alanz.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32925

--- shadow/32925	Mon Oct 28 03:58:16 2002
+++ shadow/32925.tmp.19583	Mon Oct 28 03:58:17 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+Bug#: 32925
+Product: Mono/MCS
+Version: unspecified
+OS: 
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Major
+Component: Misc
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: alan@alanz.com               
+QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: Casting to a pointer which isn't a standard type causes CS1002 error.
+
+Description of Problem:  
+  
+Mcs doesn't allow casting to a pointer which isn't a standard type of 
+Mono. In my test code it is trying to cast to a LibTestStruct* and 
+failing. Whereas it casts to an int* ok.  
+  
+  
+Code to reproduce the problem:  
+using System;  
+  
+namespace testapp{  
+	public unsafe class LibTestAPI{  
+  
+		struct LibTestStruct{  
+			void* pData;  
+			void* pTest1;  
+		}  
+  
+		public void Create(){  
+			int* ptr_int = (int*) 7;  
+			LibTestStruct* the_struct = (LibTestStruct*) 7;  
+// CS1002 error  
+		}  
+	}  
+  
+	class TestApp{  
+		[STAThread]  
+		static void Main(string[] args){  
+			LibTestAPI myapi = new LibTestAPI();  
+			myapi.Create();  
+		}  
+	}  
+}  
+  
+  
+  
+Actual Results:  
+  
+# mcs --unsafe testapp.cs  
+syntax error, expecting BASE BOOL BYTE CHAR CHECKED DECIMAL DOUBLE FALSE  
+FLOAT   
+INT LONG NEW NULL OBJECT SBYTE SHORT SIZEOF STRING THIS TRUE TYPEOF UINT   
+ULONG UNCHECKED USHORT VOID OPEN_PARENS TILDE PLUS MINUS BANG BITWISE_AND   
+STAR OP_INC OP_DEC LITERAL_INTEGER LITERAL_FLOAT LITERAL_DOUBLE   
+LITERAL_DECIMAL LITERAL_CHARACTER LITERAL_STRING IDENTIFIER  
+testapp.cs(13) error CS1002: Expecting `;'  
+Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings  
+  
+  
+Expected Results:  
+  
+The code is valid and should compile ok, performing the cast.  
+  
+How often does this happen?   
+  
+Everytime