convert ubyte[k..k + 1] to int

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 07:07:58 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> And what about the following code:
>
> // This implementation is optimized for speed via swapping
> endianness in-place
> pure immutable(C)[] fixEndian(C, Endian blobEndian =
> endian)(ubyte[] blob) if(is(CharTypeOf!C))
> {
>      import std.bitmanip, std.system;
>      auto data = cast(C[]) blob;
>      static if(blobEndian != endian)
>      {
>          static assert(!is(typeof(C) == char)); // UTF-8 doesn't
> have endianness
>          foreach(ref ch; data) ch = swapEndian(ch);
>      }
>      return cast(immutable) data;
> }
I mean, is it safe (assuming that we are allowed to mutate blob, 
and its length is a multiple of C.sizeof)?

I do casting from ubyte[] to C[].