From @moritz

Rakudo 087e299898416ca6c3a6e2b2bdc3785d841f0ec6​:

From the parent​:
$ >./perl6 -e 'class P { submethod BUILD($o) { say self.WHAT; $o.doit(2)
} }; class C is P { has $!a; method doit($x) { $!a = $x; }}; C.new()'
P
Null PMC access in getprop()

In a class itself​:
$ ./perl6 -e 'class P { has $.foo; submethod BUILD($o) { $!foo = 3 }};
P.new'
Null PMC access in getprop()
current instr.​: 'infix​:=' pc 13972 (src/builtins/assign.pir​:21)
called from Sub 'parrot;P;BUILD' pc 225 (EVAL_20​:94)
called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6Object;BUILDALL' pc 1071
(src/classes/Object.pir​:371)
called from Sub '_block14' pc 74 (EVAL_20​:41)
called from Sub '!UNIT_START' pc 17161 (src/builtins/guts.pir​:325)
called from Sub 'parrot;PCT;HLLCompiler;eval' pc 950
(src/PCT/HLLCompiler.pir​:527)
called from Sub 'parrot;PCT;HLLCompiler;command_line' pc 1496
(src/PCT/HLLCompiler.pir​:787)
called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6;Compiler;main' pc 21458 (perl6.pir​:163)

From @jnthn

On Sun Mar 15 12​:00​:21 2009, moritz wrote​:

Rakudo 087e299898416ca6c3a6e2b2bdc3785d841f0ec6​:

From the parent​:
$ >./perl6 -e 'class P { submethod BUILD($o) { say self.WHAT; $o.doit(2)
} }; class C is P { has $!a; method doit($x) { $!a = $x; }}; C.new()'
P
Null PMC access in getprop()

In a class itself​:
$ ./perl6 -e 'class P { has $.foo; submethod BUILD($o) { $!foo = 3 }};
P.new'
Null PMC access in getprop()

Note that BUILD as per S12 does not take a positional parameter like for
the object, which is now corrected. And also this bug is too. We pass
all of S12-construction/BUILD.t, which I think is enough test coverage
to make this ticket closable.

Thanks,

Jonathan

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

@jnthn - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'