On 5/17/2017 8:30 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 15:15:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/16/2017 8:02 PM, tsbockman wrote:
Such code is verbose, hard to read, and, judging by the bugs and missing
specializations I've found, hard to write correctly. It is also not compatible
with CTFE.
CTFE does support things like:
double d;
int i = *(cast(int*)&d);
as a special case, specifically to support bit manipulation of floating point
types.
the special case it supports if cast(uint*)&float;
and cast(ulong*)&double.
Thanks for the clarification.
Hence, removing such casts in Phobos would break it in CTFE, rather than fix it.
