convert char[4] to uint at compile time

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Tue Dec 16 11:54:11 PST 2008


Reply to Moritz,

> Hi,
> 
> I have problems to convert a char[4] to an uint at compile time. All
> variations (I've tried) of using an enum crashes dmd:
> 
> union pp { char[4] str; uint num; }
> const uint x = pp("abcd").num
> This does also doesn't work:
> 
> const uint x = cast(uint) x"aa aa aa aa";
> 
> Any ideas?
> 


template Go (char[4] arg)
{
    const uint Go = (arg[0] << 24) | (arg[1] << 16) | (arg[2] << 8) | arg[3];
}

import std.stdio;
void main()
{
   writef("%x\n", Go!("Good"));
}




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