On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 14:05:50 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:59:20 +0100, Steven Schveighoffer
<[email protected]> wrote:
It was never possible. You must explicitly cast to void[].
to -> from?
void[] makes actually little sense as the result of whole-file
read that allocates. byte[] is at least usable and more
accurate. In fact, it's a little dangerous to use void[],
since you could assign pointer-containing values to the void[]
and it should be marked as NOSCAN (no pointers inside file
data).
I see what you're saying, byte[] is what *is* allocated.. but
my point is that it's not what those bytes actually represent.
Are you saying void[] *is* currently marked NOSCAN?
However, when using the more conventional read(void[]) makes a
LOT of sense, since any T[] implicitly casts to void[].
Indeed. :)
R
auto a1 = new ubyte[10]; //NO_SCAN set
auto a2 = new ubyte*[10]; // NO_SCAN not set
auto a3 = new void[10]; //NO_SCAN not set
auto a4 = new void *[10]; //NO_SCAN not set
void [] retains = a1; //NO_SCAN REMAINS SET from the ubyte []
at creation time.
Since read comes straight from the file. It contains no memory
pointers
and the NO_SCAN can be set.
