How to use sprintf

[Robert Clipsham]

On 25/04/2011 16:26, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:21:16 +0300, Robert Clipsham
> <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:
>
>> On 25/04/2011 15:56, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:19:12 +0300, Steven Schveighoffer
>>> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem the OP has is he is casting buffer to a char *. He should
>>>> just use buffer.ptr.
>>>
>>> Casting a string to char* is exactly the same as using the .ptr
>>> property, as far as generated code is concerned.
>>
>> Not when a string is defined internally as struct { size_t length;
>> immutable(char)* ptr; }. Casting to char* is a pointer to the start of
>> the length, not the pointer.
>
> Try it.
>

That's weird, I really didn't expect that :< Don't suppose you could 
explain why this behavior occurs?

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Robert
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