Why am I getting different array size depending where I calling?

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 21:00:38 UTC, matheus wrote:
> void[] getFoo(){
>     writeln(cast(int[])bar);
>     auto foo = getFoo();
>     writeln(foo);
>
> Prints:
>
> [1, 0]
> [2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
>
> Looking through godbolt.org the ASM generated with both
>
> So why the array generated from getFoo() is 4 times bigger than 
> the other?

It isn't. You're casting one to int[] and not casting the other, 
leaving it as void[], which writeln will interpret as just raw 
bytes.

Since an int is 4x bigger than a byte, casting it to int shows 
1/4 the number of ints.

But the actual array is the same.