Shouldn't casting an object to void* be considered @safe?
Ola Fosheim Grøstad
ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 11:15:22 UTC 2019
On Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 09:32:12 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
> BTW, note that the spec defines a @safe function as one that
> has been statically checked to exhibit no undefined behaviour.
>
> Casting from an non-pointer type to a pointer seems a pretty
> good example of something that makes it impossible to
> statically confirm that no undefined behaviour is taking place.
Not impossible?
It only becomes a problem if @trusted code do unsafe things, like
taking *void pointers that it intends to dereference.
You just need to show that *void pointers that @safe code can
write to are not dereferenced.
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