Re: Casting a pointer and length value as a dynamic array

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 30 July 2018 at 22:22:39 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
I need this to port a C++ code to D (a compression algorithm 
known as LZHAM), and the easiest way to deal with it would be 
that. The ADLER32 and CRC32 algorithms had to be ditched, and 
while I could rewrite the former to make sense (used some form 
of "vectorization") I would like to use the standard library's 
implementation for the latter.


   int[] as_array(int* ptr, size_t len) {
  return ptr[0 .. len];
   }

Casting a pointer and length value as a dynamic array

[solidstate1991 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

I need this to port a C++ code to D (a compression algorithm 
known as LZHAM), and the easiest way to deal with it would be 
that. The ADLER32 and CRC32 algorithms had to be ditched, and 
while I could rewrite the former to make sense (used some form of 
"vectorization") I would like to use the standard library's 
implementation for the latter.