On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 12:59:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
It was never possible. You must explicitly cast to void[].
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).
However, when using the more conventional read(void[]) makes a
LOT of sense, since any T[] implicitly casts to void[].
-Steve
void[] will only make sense once you've accepted that
"void.sizeof == 1".
Well, I guess "void[]" is C++'s "char*" for indiscriminate
buffers. Speaking of which, does "void*" trigger strict aliasing
in D? This subject seems like a hot potato no-one wants to touch.
