Implicit conversion from array of class to array of interface

[Phil Deets]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:16:19 -0500, Frank Benoit  
<keinfarbton at googlemail.com> wrote:

> casting an array of class references to an array of interface references
> (or vice versa) will not work at runtime. Your program will crash.
>
> This is because if the invisible pointer correction that is done if you
> cast a single class ref to an interface ref.
>
>
> C c = new C;
> I i = c;
>
> writefln( "c=%d i=%i", cast(uint)cast(void*)c, cast(uint)cast(void*)i);
>
> This shows, the numeric values are not equal.
> At the assignment were an imlicit cast is taking place, dmd inserts a
> pointer adjustement. If you cast an array, nothing physically is done to
> the array content. In fact you need to run a loop over the array and
> cast each member on it own.

Thanks for informing me, my newer workaround avoids this problem.

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