digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 24630] New: Casting a bool pointer to a mutable pointer type
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (22/22) Jun 25 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24630
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24630 Issue ID: 24630 Summary: Casting a bool pointer to a mutable pointer type is unsafe Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: nick geany.org Inverse of issue 24582. bool v; auto bp = cast(byte*) &v; *bp = 2; // v is now invalid Same goes for runtime cast from bool[] to byte[]. If the target element type is const then the cast is safe. PR incoming. --
Jun 25