Support non-base type fields in structs #634
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What was wrong?
As described in #343 structs can currently only use fields with base types. That limitation should be lifted.
How was it fixed?
Structs can now use any fixed size type (except contract types for now) as field types. However, support is currently limited in two major ways:
That functionality is expected to arrive with follow up PRs.
I should also say that the implementation based on
get_x_ptr
/get_x_ptr_raw
feels a bit dirty (especially the part where we derive the_raw
API from the nonraw
one). But this seems like something that would naturally evolve in another direction if we add explicit reference semantics so it may be ok for now.