Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:45:14 -0500, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:

> dsimcha Wrote:
>
>> Funny, as simple as it is, this is a great idea for std.array because it
>> shortens the verbose cast(int) a.length to one extra character.  You
>> could even put an assert in it to check in debug mode only that the
>> conversion is safe.
>
>> > int ilength(void[] a) @property
>> > {
>> >    return cast(int)a.length;
>> > }
>
> I'm not sure the code is correct. I have a vague impression that void[]  
> is like byte[], at least, it's used as such, and conversion from int[]  
> to byte[] multiplies the length by 4.

Yes, David has proposed a corrected version on the Phobos mailing list:

http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/phobos/2011-February/004493.html

-Steve