How to convert ubyte[] to uint?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/23/18 3:53 PM, Dr.No wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 19:49:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 19:36:07 Dr.No via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>>>       [...]
>>
>> As the template constraint in the error message says, read requires an 
>> input range. Static arrays are not input ranges. You need to give it a 
>> dynamic array - and since read takes its argument by reference, you 
>> can't simply slice the static array and pass it. You need a variable 
>> that's a dynamic array.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> sorry, the error message wasn't clear to me. When I use dynamic arrays I 
> get:
> 
> slice of static array temporary returned by fnv64.finish() assigned to 
> longer lived variable arr
> 
> What should use instead of?

I'm guessing you wrote:

ubyte[] arr = fnv64.finish();

??

You want:

auto arrtmp = fnv64.finish();
auto arr = arrtmp[];

Basically, what you were doing is allocating some stack space to hold a 
static array that immediately goes out of scope, and then storing a 
slice to it.

-Steve