Bug#583837:

[Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com>]

See Order or Static Construction.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/module.html

Circular dependencies are allowed so long as not both of the modules contain static ctors or dtors, else will result in a runtime exception.

The very simplest example of this is:

===

a.d

===

module a;

import b;

class A {

    static this() {}

}

===

b.d

===

module b;

import a;

class B {

    static this() {}

}

===

main.d

===

void main() {}

I don't think this is really a compiler bug per se, but attached is a patch for torus that should resolve the conflict and still satisfy runtime.

Regards

--
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

diff -ur torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1.orig/src/abagames/tt/particle.d torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1/src/abagames/tt/particle.d
--- torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1.orig/src/abagames/tt/particle.d	2005-01-01 21:40:28.000000000 +0000
+++ torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1/src/abagames/tt/particle.d	2010-05-31 01:25:09.788741816 +0100
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
  private:
   static const float GRAVITY = 0.02;
   static const float SIZE = 0.3;
-  static Rand rand;
+  static Rand _rand;
   Tunnel tunnel;
   Ship ship;
   Vector3 pos;
@@ -42,8 +42,11 @@
   float d1, d2, md1, md2;
   float width, height;
 
-  public static this() {
-    rand = new Rand;
+  public static Rand rand() {
+    if (_rand is null)
+      _rand = new Rand;
+
+    return _rand;
   }
 
   public static void setRandSeed(long seed) {
diff -ur torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1.orig/src/abagames/tt/shape.d torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1/src/abagames/tt/shape.d
--- torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1.orig/src/abagames/tt/shape.d	2004-11-12 23:46:02.000000000 +0000
+++ torus-trooper-0.22.dfsg1/src/abagames/tt/shape.d	2010-05-31 01:24:29.344714781 +0100
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     SMALL, MIDDLE, LARGE
   }
  private:
-  static Rand rand;
+  static Rand _rand;
   Structure[] structure;
   Vector _collision;
   DisplayList displayList;
@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@
   Vector rocketPos, fragmentPos;
   int color;
 
-  static this() {
-    rand = new Rand;
+  static Rand rand() {
+    if (_rand is null)
+      _rand = new Rand;
+
+    return _rand;
   }
   
   public this(long randSeed) {