Casting Pointers?

[Rene Zwanenburg via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 22:23:38 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> The pointer cast solution is specifically supported at CTFE, 
> because /unions/ don't work there. :p

Well that's a problem ^^

I remember a discussion quite a while ago where Walter stated D 
should have strict aliasing rules, let me see if I can find it.. 
Ah here:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/jg3f21$1jqa$1@digitalmars.com

On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 06:58:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Although it isn't in the spec, D should be "strict aliasing". 
> This is because:
>
> 1. it enables better code generation
>
> 2. there are ways, such as unions, to get the other aliasing 
> that doesn't break strict aliasing

On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 08:59:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/27/2013 1:57 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> We need to carefully formalize this then, and quickly.
>>
>> [...]
> I agree. Want to do an enhancement request on bugzilla for it?