On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 11:54:59 UTC, welkam wrote:
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 22:14:25 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:Nothing stops you from writing: SomeStruct myStruct; fd.rawRead((cast(ubyte*)&myStruct)[0..SomeStruct.sizeof]); Standard caveats about byte order and alignment.Never would I thought about casting struct to static array. If I understood correctly you cast myStruct pointer to ubyte pointer and then construct static array on stack with tmpArray.ptr = (ubyte pointer) and tmpArray.sizeof = SomeStruct.sizeof
Almost correct, except it's not a static array, it's just a slice, i.e. ubyte[].
