• Lucas Burson (21/21) May 13 2015 The std.batmanip bigEndianToNative has a regression where the
• Lucas Burson (2/2) May 13 2015 I reported this as a regression

"Lucas Burson" <ljdelight+dlang gmail.com> writes:

The std.batmanip bigEndianToNative has a regression where the 
slice range doesn't work with variables (only literals).
Is the syntax incorrect or is this a regression in dmd?

Using this main.d:
import std.bitmanip;

int main(string args[])
{
    auto datain = new ubyte[16];

    // this syntax works
    ushort descriptorLength = 
bigEndianToNative!ushort(datain[2..4]);

    // this syntax fails (worked in previous version)
    int offset = 2;
    descriptorLength = bigEndianToNative!ushort(cast(ubyte[2]) 
datain[offset..offset+2]);

    return 0;
}


I get this error on the command line:
main.d(14): Error: cannot cast expression 
datain[cast(uint)offset..cast(uint)(offset + 2)] of type ubyte[] 
to ubyte[2]

"Lucas Burson" <ljdelight+dlang gmail.com> writes:

I reported this as a regression 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14582