On 07/11/2013 12:23 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-07-10 20:22, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>
>> And to be pedantic, length comes first:
>>
>> struct Array (T)
>> {
>> size_t length;
>> T* ptr;
>> }
>
> I thought "ptr" came first, that's the reason you could cast to the
> pointer type. Not that one should do that. Perhaps there's some
> compiler/runtime magic involved.
There must be little magic and that magic should be the same as getting
the .ptr property. Otherwise, the "value" of a struct object cannot be
casted to pointer type:
struct S
{
int *p;
}
auto s = S();
int *p = cast(int*)s;
Error: e2ir: cannot cast s of type S to type int*
Ali
