@trusting generic functions

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 13:10:56 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 13:03:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> What kind of pointer usage do you have? Remember that basic & 
>> and * operations ARE @safe.
>>
>> If you have more internally, you might be able to wrap them up 
>> in an @trusted function to again allow inference to work.
>
> Ouch! I was under the impression that any pointer usage was 
> forbidden in @safe code.

  Pointers by themselves are safe (as they have to point to 
something valid to start with); It's manipulating pointers that's 
usually unsafe (and the easiest source of bugs with pointers 
involved).