Do equality checks for dynamic arrays attempt to shortcut with pointer comparison

[monarch_dodra]

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 16:05:27 UTC, dnspies wrote:
> But I still don't see how this opEquals which takes two Objects 
> could possibly accept dynamic arrays instead.

It doesn't. The link you were given was not relevent.

> Object is a class-type so its instances can only be accessed by 
> reference (which is only a single pointer internally).  Thus 
> the size of the parameters to this function is two pointers.  
> But a dynamic array is a pointer paired with a length (which is 
> the same size as two pointers) meaning the size of the 
> parameters two any function taking two arrays would have to be 
> four pointers.  So it seems like any function which would work 
> on both would have to be templated (but this one isn't).  Are 
> you sure that this is the opEquals that gets used with dynamic 
> arrays and not a different one somewhere else?

It's not the one for dynamic arrays. AFAIK, the one for arrays is 
fully compiler generated, so you won't find it anywhere.