convert char[4] to uint at compile time

[Janderson]

Moritz Warning wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:54:11 +0000, BCS wrote:
> 
>> 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"));
>> }
> 
> Thanks!
> That workaround should do it.
> 
> Maybe it will be possible to just do cast(uint) "abcd" in the future. :>

That would only cast the pointer.  It should be something like : 
cast(uint)(*"abcs") or *cast(uint*) "abcs".

-Joel