casting as char at CT fail

[Shammah Chancellor]

On 2013-11-27 06:06:49 +0000, bioinfornatics said:

> On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 01:22:07 UTC, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>> On 2013-11-26 23:31:14 +0000, bioinfornatics said:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> this time i have so many question about CT …
>>> iws and ibuclaw help me for this.
>>> 
>>> I stuck currently about a cast at CT -> http://www.dpaste.dzfl.pl/1a28a22c
>>> 
>>> it seem this should works but not…
>>> So if you confirm maybe a report is needed
>>> 
>>> thanks to everyone
>> 
>> 
>> String at compile time seem to be represented as dchar.   Also, the 
>> loop on bitsPerChar won't work at compile time right now.
>> I think 	 maskTmp = cast(T)((1 << bitsPerChar) - 1);
>> does the same thing though.
>> 
>> http://www.dpaste.dzfl.pl/985a2f42
>> 
>> Fails with some weird internal DMD error now though while trying to 
>> instantiate the enum.   Maybe time for a bug report?
> 
> ldc2 fail too but error message is better, i think.
> 
> $ ldc2 BaseTest2.d
> /usr/include/d/std/range.d(4171): Error: pointer cast from 
> immutable(dchar)* to dchar* is not supported at compile time
> BaseTest2.d(56):        called from here: __r11.front()
> BaseTest2.d(99):        called from here: Base(cast(ubyte)0u, null, 
> cast(ubyte)0u, cast(ubyte)0u, null, null).this(cast(ubyte)4u, "ACGT", 
> [cast(ubyte)0u, cast(ubyte)1u, cast(ubyte)2u, cast(ubyte)3u])
> BaseTest2.d(101): Error: function BaseTest2.Base!(ubyte, 
> dchar).Base.encode (const(immutable(dchar)[]) word) const is not 
> callable using argument types (string)

The cast is unnecessary just do the assignment using dchars.   Even 
with that fixed though, there is annother problem as seen in my dpaste.