[Nickle] Bug: reference addition bounds check on arrays

[Keith Packard]

Around 11 o'clock on Jan 15, "Bart Massey" wrote:

> I *think* this was supposed to work.
> 
>     > int[3] a;
>     > *(int[*]) ar = &a;
>     > *(int[*]) ar = &a + 1;
>     Unhandled exception invalid_array_bounds ("Element out of range in reference addition", &(int [3]) {<uninit>,<uninit>, <uninit>}, 1)
>     <stdin>:3:     *int[*] ar = &a + 1;
>     >

Nope, this isn't supposed to work -- you're referencing the array, not an 
element of the array and the array is in a box with a single element.

What are you trying to get?

-keith


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