Is there an easy way to convert a pointer to malloc'd memory to an array?

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Am Tue, 24 May 2016 20:58:14 +0000
schrieb Gary Willoughby <dev at nomad.so>:

> On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:43:22 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:42:41 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:  
> >> I have a T* pointer to the start of a malloc'd chunk of 
> >> memory, the type T and the number of T's stored in the chunk.
> >>
> >> Is there an efficient way of converting this information to a 
> >> D array of type T[] or even T[n]?  
> >
> > Slice it:
> >
> > T[] = t[0 .. n];  
> 
> That! ...is amazing!

How did you _ever_ read structs from files without this
knowledge?

-- 
Marco