[Issue 24362] casting a string literal with a postfix to array re-interpret casts anything

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24362

Walter Bright <bugzilla at digitalmars.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Walter Bright <bugzilla at digitalmars.com> ---
This should work:

> auto v0 = cast(float[1]) "abcd"c; // re-interpret casts string bytes to float

This should not compile:

> auto v1 = cast(ubyte[300][2]) "abcd"c; // assert failure in dcast.d

This should not compile:

>     auto v2 = cast(long[2]) "abcd"c; // assert failure in backend

The rule for array casting is the size of the result should match the size of
the operand.

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