static array casting

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> "Hoenir" <mrmocool at gmx.de> wrote in message 
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>> Why does
>>
>> RGBA[] PALETTE = cast(RGBA[]) [
>>     0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xE3, 0x53, 0x00, 0x00,...... ];
>>
>> work, but
>>
>> RGBA[256] PALETTE = cast(RGBA[256]) [
>>     0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xE3, 0x53, 0x00, 0x00,...];
>>
>> doesn't?
>> RGBA simply is a struct containing r,g,b and a as ubytes.
>
> Works for me.  Are you sure you have exactly 1024 values in that array?

Stupid OE.

You weren't very clear on what what was happening.  It works when it's in a 
function, but not when declared at global scope.

As for why it fails with a stupid "non-const expression" error?  Who knows. 
Probably a bug.  Maybe it's already committed.

As a weird workaround, you can do this:

RGBA[256] Pal = (cast(RGBA[])[ ... ])[0 .. 256];