http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2542

           Summary: array casts behave differently at compile and runtime
           Product: D
           Version: 1.037
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: spec
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: kamm-removethis@incasoftware.de


This is related to casts of arrays not being documented: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2494

The issue is that the following produce different results:

const short[] ct = cast(short[]) [cast(byte)1, 1]; // ct is [1, 1]
short[] rt = cast(short[]) [cast(byte)1, 1].dup; // rt is [ 257 ]

The runtime cast seems to be defined as 'reinterpret the data as an array of a different type, recompute the length' whereas the compile time cast seems to be 'convert each element to the other element type, keep length unchanged'.


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------- Comment #1 from bugzilla@digitalmars.com  2008-12-27 04:35 -------
You're right, this is a documentation issue. Casts of array literals are treated differently.


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------- Comment #2 from kamm-removethis@incasoftware.de  2008-12-27 06:11 -------
While you're at it, could you also document these casts for string literals?

short[] ct1 = cast(short[]) "\x01\x01"; // [ 257 ]
short[] ct2 = cast(short[]) [cast(char)1, 1]; // [1, 1]

even though both literals represent the same char[2] value.


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smjg@iname.com changed:

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------- Comment #3 from smjg@iname.com  2009-01-06 06:53 -------
So [cast(byte)1, 1] isn't a byte[], an int[] or anything like that, but of an internal 'array literal' type.

Then why is [cast(byte)1, 1].dup not also of this internal 'array literal'
type?


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clugdbug@yahoo.com.au changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Comment #4 from clugdbug@yahoo.com.au  2009-04-03 07:42 -------
Fixed DMD2.023 and DMD1.039


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