• Jacob Carlborg (18/18) Nov 10 2012 The following example:
• Timon Gehr (6/22) Nov 10 2012 The length of an array is the number of elements. sizeof(void)==1 and
• Jacob Carlborg (4/9) Nov 10 2012 Ok, thanks for the explanation.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

The following example:

void main()
{
     void[][size_t] aa;
     aa[1] = [1, 2, 3];

     if (auto a = 1 in aa)
     {
         writeln(*(cast(int[]*) a));
         writeln(cast(int[]) *a);
     }
}

Will print:

[1, 2, 3, 201359280, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
[1, 2, 3]

The first value seems to contain some kind of garbage. Why don't these 
two cases result in the same value?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:

On 11/10/2012 01:20 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 The following example:

 void main()
 {
      void[][size_t] aa;
      aa[1] = [1, 2, 3];

      if (auto a = 1 in aa)
      {
          writeln(*(cast(int[]*) a));
          writeln(cast(int[]) *a);
      }
 }

 Will print:

 [1, 2, 3, 201359280, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
 [1, 2, 3]

 The first value seems to contain some kind of garbage. Why don't these
 two cases result in the same value?

The length of an array is the number of elements. sizeof(void)==1 and 
sizeof(int)==4. The first example reinterprets the ptr and length pair 
of the void[] as a ptr and length pair of an int[]. The second example 
adjusts the length so that the resulting array corresponds to the same 
memory region.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-11-10 17:48, Timon Gehr wrote:

 The length of an array is the number of elements. sizeof(void)==1 and
 sizeof(int)==4. The first example reinterprets the ptr and length pair
 of the void[] as a ptr and length pair of an int[]. The second example
 adjusts the length so that the resulting array corresponds to the same
 memory region.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg