On Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 06:23:15 UTC, Gorge Jingale wrote:
I think that the assignment in the first case is not assigning
the reference returned by auto ref GetValue().
`ref` in D is shallow, it only applies to the thing it is
specifically on and is lost across assignments. Once you assi
On Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 06:23:15 UTC, Gorge Jingale wrote:
I think that the assignment in the first case is not assigning
the reference returned by auto ref GetValue().
Yep. There's no such thing as C++ `auto& val = GetValue()` in D.
You'd have to use a pointer instead: `auto pVal = &GetV
On 14/07/2016 6:23 PM, Gorge Jingale wrote:
I'm pretty confused why the following code doesn't work as expected.
GetValue is a struct.
auto value = GetValue();
memcpy(&value, &val, Val.sizeof);
But if I plug in value direct to memset it works!!
memcpy(&GetValue(), &val, Val.sizeof);
Ge
I'm pretty confused why the following code doesn't work as
expected.
GetValue is a struct.
auto value = GetValue();
memcpy(&value, &val, Val.sizeof);
But if I plug in value direct to memset it works!!
memcpy(&GetValue(), &val, Val.sizeof);
GetValue returns memory to stick a value in an