From 090ff05054756a1394712117515766bd96913e49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <superjoe30@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 14:24:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add compile error for initializing struct with non struct
 type

---
 src/ir.cpp | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ir.cpp b/src/ir.cpp
index 6304114b8..16467ff44 100644
--- a/src/ir.cpp
+++ b/src/ir.cpp
@@ -9578,6 +9578,13 @@ static TypeTableEntry *ir_analyze_container_init_fields(IrAnalyze *ira, IrInstru
     TypeTableEntry *container_type, size_t instr_field_count, IrInstructionContainerInitFieldsField *fields,
     bool depends_on_compile_var)
 {
+    if (container_type->id != TypeTableEntryIdStruct || is_slice(container_type)) {
+        ir_add_error(ira, instruction,
+            buf_sprintf("type '%s' does not support struct initialization syntax",
+                buf_ptr(&container_type->name)));
+        return ira->codegen->builtin_types.entry_invalid;
+    }
+
     if (!type_is_complete(container_type))
         resolve_container_type(ira->codegen, container_type);