Re: ICE?

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sun, 17 May 2015 09:33:27 +0000
Namespace via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 09:30:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> > On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 09:25:33 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> >> Is this error an ICE? I think so, because I see the internal 
> >> filename, but I'm not sure.
> >>
> >> Error: e2ir: cannot cast malloc(length * 8u) of type void* to 
> >> type char[]
> >
> > Have you got a code sample to reproduce this?
> 
> Of course:
> 
> ----
> void main() {
>       import core.stdc.stdlib : malloc, free;
> 
>       auto ptr = cast(char[]) malloc(42);
> }
> ----

I guess it should be:

auto ptr = cast(char*)malloc(42)[0 .. 42];