[Nickle]initializer bug

Keith Packard nickle@nickle.org
Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:53:43 -0700


Around 1 o'clock on Aug 16, Bart Massey wrote:

> Nickle doesn't handle repeated initializers for zero length
> arrays correctly...

Yeah, it (incautiously) assumed that any repeated initializer was going to 
be used for at least one element.  Fixing that required a change to the 
virtual machine to check the repeat count before doing the first 
initialization.

-keith