How to convert a ubyte to a byte without losing information?
I can cast a ubyte to a byte, but as far as I know I'd only get positive values out of that conversion. If I was instead getting a ubyte out of a function and I want to assign those bits to a byte and have some of those numbers be interpreted as negative values by the new type they're in, how would I cast that in D?
Re: How to convert a ubyte to a byte without losing information?
On Sunday, 16 August 2015 at 11:43:24 UTC, CharmingChocolate wrote: I can cast a ubyte to a byte, but as far as I know I'd only get positive values out of that conversion. ubyte b = 255; byte b2 = cast(byte) b; assert(b2 == -1); No information is lost by that cast, all the bits remain exactly the same.