casting issue

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 17:59:03 UTC, Alexandr Druzhinin 
wrote:
> May I cast like:
>
> struct Point
> {
> 	float x, y, z;
> 	float r, g, b, a;
> }
>
> Point[] points;
>
> void foo(float[] float_array) {};
>
> foo(cast(float[]) points); // is it safe?
>
> May be more elegant way do express this exists?
>
> Thanks

Not entirely. Try adding `align(64)` to struct declaration and 
observe funny change ;) It is clearly some low-level hack and not 
something for usage in normal code.

One can create array from struct instance via [ point.tupleof ], 
but this will allocate as all array literals do.