Implicit pointer dereference when using member operator. (#2348)

* Implicit pointer dereference when using member operator.

* Add expected test result

* Fix lookup.

Co-authored-by: Yong He <yhe@nvidia.com>

2 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/cpu-program/pointer-deref.slang b/tests/cpu-program/pointer-deref.slang
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34c6ba97f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cpu-program/pointer-deref.slang
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+//TEST:EXECUTABLE:
+__target_intrinsic(cpp, "printf(\"%s\\n\", ($0).getBuffer())")
+void writeln(String text);
+
+struct SubRecord
+{
+    int field2;
+    float field3;
+}
+
+struct Record
+{
+    int field;
+    SubRecord sub;
+}
+
+public __extern_cpp int main()
+{
+    Record rec;
+    Record *pRec = &rec;
+    pRec.field = 1;
+    pRec.sub.field2 = 2;
+    pRec.sub.field3 = 3.0f;
+    if (rec.field == 1 && rec.sub.field2 == 2 && pRec.sub.field3 == 3.0f)
+    {
+        writeln("success");
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        writeln("fail");
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/cpu-program/pointer-deref.slang.expected b/tests/cpu-program/pointer-deref.slang.expected
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0eb55acbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cpu-program/pointer-deref.slang.expected
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+result code = 0
+standard error = {
+}
+standard output = {
+success
+}