On Thursday, February 15, 2018 17:21:22 Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 16:51:05 UTC, Kyle wrote: > > Hi. Is there a convenient way to convert a ubyte[4] into a > > signed int? I'm having trouble handling the static arrays > > returned by std.bitmanip.nativeToLittleEndian. Is there some > > magic sauce to make the static arrays into input ranges or > > something? As a side note, I'm used to using D on Linux and > > DMD's error messages on Windows are comparably terrible. Thanks! > > you mean you want to convert the bitpattern represented by the > uint[4] to an int? > > You want a reinterpret style case > > ubyte[4] foo = ...; > int baz = *cast(int*)&foo;
Yeah, though that loses all of the endianness benefits of std.bitmanip, and there's no reason why std.bitmanip couldn't be used to convert from ubyte[4] to int or vice versa. It's just a question of understanding what he's trying to do exactly, since it sounds like he's confused by the API. - Jonathan M Davis
