On Saturday, 16 August 2025 at 15:44:45 UTC, Richard (Rikki)
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
On 17/08/2025 3:44 AM, Brother Bill wrote:
On Saturday, 16 August 2025 at 15:30:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 03:24:55PM +0000, Brother Bill via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
So a good D developer should not store an invalid pointer
address into a pointer, with the single exception of storing
a pointer address just past a slice or array.
Where does it say this in the spec? Because this is wrong.
D arrays carry length with them; they do not rely on pointers
pointing past the allocated memory region.
T
Source: Programming in D book, page 432, chapter 68.8
Quote: It is valid to point at the imaginary element one past
the end of an array.
That is not the spec, the book is wrong.
Please provide link to the current spec?
