[Vala] unexpected error while compiling a vala file

[Mildred Ki'Lya <ml mildred593 gmail com>]

Hi,

I'm having troubles to compile the vala file attached to this e-mail.
The command line is:

    valac --pkg=gio-2.0 --pkg=glib-2.0 email.vala

When the lines containing `buffer += c` are commented out (lines 67 and
70), the program compiles.

I use vala 0.9.3 as packaged by the Fedora distribution.
The vala compiler gives me the following errors:

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email.vala:25.13-25.37: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
        if (parent.read (&c, 1, null) == 0){
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
email.vala:41.5-41.32: warning: method
`Email.EmailInputStream.push_back_buffer' never used
    public void push_back_buffer (uint8[] buffer) {
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
email.vala:51.5-51.25: warning: method
`Email.EmailInputStream.read_line' never used
    public bool read_line(ref uint8[] buffer){
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
**
ERROR:valaccodearraymodule.c:1407:vala_ccode_array_module_real_get_array_size_cexpression:
code should not be reached
zsh: abort (core dumped)  valac --pkg=gio-2.0 --pkg=glib-2.0 email.vala

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Apparently, this is an assertion failure in the compiler code that
causes this error.

What do you think of this error? Am I doing wrong things?

By the way, I couldn't find any reference on the built-in operations
available on the vala arrays (buffer.length, buffer.resize(int), buffer
+=, ...)
Where do you think I could find documentation on that ?

Note: I'm using uint8[] instead of string because I just want to
manipulate a stream of bytes that very often looks like a string. I
don't want to deal with encoding problems. Is there a better solution?

Thanks.

Mildred


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