pointer array?

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

V Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:33:51 +0000
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> In Ali's excllent book, somehow one thing has escaped my 
> attention, and that it the mentioning of pointer arrays.
> 
> Can pointers of any type of pointed variable be inserted in an 
> int array? Using to!(int) perhaps? If not directly, then what 
> else would achieve the same effect?

It depends on pointer size, for eg, on 64bit system with 64bit pointers
something like this should works:
long[] arr = (cast(long*)pointersArray.ptr)[0 .. pointersArray.length];
or
long[] arr = cast(long[])pointersArray; // but I am not sure if this is
OK