// Copyright 2012 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. struct Rec { f: int } fn f(p: *Rec) -> int { // Test that * ptrs do not autoderef. There is a deeper reason for // prohibiting this, beyond making unsafe things annoying (which doesn't // actually seem desirable to me). The deeper reason is that if you // have a type like: // // enum foo = *foo; // // you end up with an infinite auto-deref chain, which is // currently impossible (in all other cases, infinite auto-derefs // are prohibited by various checks, such as that the enum is // instantiable and so forth). return p.f; //~ ERROR attempted access of field `f` on type `*Rec` } fn main() { }