On Friday, 5 February 2016 at 19:16:11 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> 1. Removing 'ref' from the return type

Must happen. 'ref' only worked because of the reinterpreting cast which doesn't work in general. This will change the semantics. Now the caller of 'slice' will deal with a whole new copy of everything in the returned slice instead of a narrower view into the original data. But that's a needed change to fix the bug.

Actually, it's not: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3973

All that is required is to include a little padding at the beginning of the slice struct to make the alignments match.

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