ubyte[4] to int

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, February 15, 2018 17:21:22 Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 16:51:05 UTC, Kyle wrote:
> > Hi. Is there a convenient way to convert a ubyte[4] into a
> > signed int? I'm having trouble handling the static arrays
> > returned by std.bitmanip.nativeToLittleEndian. Is there some
> > magic sauce to make the static arrays into input ranges or
> > something? As a side note, I'm used to using D on Linux and
> > DMD's error messages on Windows are comparably terrible. Thanks!
>
> you mean you want to convert the bitpattern represented by the
> uint[4] to an int?
>
> You want a reinterpret style case
>
> ubyte[4] foo = ...;
> int baz = *cast(int*)&foo;

Yeah, though that loses all of the endianness benefits of std.bitmanip, and
there's no reason why std.bitmanip couldn't be used to convert from ubyte[4]
to int or vice versa. It's just a question of understanding what he's trying
to do exactly, since it sounds like he's confused by the API.

- Jonathan M Davis