Array operation doesn't check array bounds

Simon s.d.hammett at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 05:08:39 PDT 2011


On 03/04/2011 12:46, bearophile wrote:
> Simon:
>
>> "A program may not rely on array bounds checking happening"
>
> Yet DMD has to perform them to help programmers.

No it doesn't. D is supposed to be systems programming language.
Unnecessary bounds checking would make array access too slow.

Mind you phobos should provide an array container which does that checking.

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