On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 12:01:49 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
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[].
I guess it came from inseparability with C where you want to
slice C arrays? Thats useful to know
