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langref: clarify permitted @bitCast usage.

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The current phrasing is vague; it is unclear whether it is demonstrating an example of the type of permitted behavior, from which the rule set must be extrapolated, or it is stating that this restriction only applies to the relationship between integers and bare structs.
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InKryption 2022-06-02 20:29:09 +02:00 committed by Veikka Tuominen
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@ -8005,7 +8005,7 @@ fn func(y: *i32) void {
<li>Convert {#syntax#}i32{#endsyntax#} to {#syntax#}u32{#endsyntax#} preserving twos complement</li>
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<p>
Works at compile-time if {#syntax#}value{#endsyntax#} is known at compile time. It's a compile error to bitcast a struct to a scalar type of the same size since structs have undefined layout. However if the struct is packed then it works.
Works at compile-time if {#syntax#}value{#endsyntax#} is known at compile time. It's a compile error to bitcast a value of undefined layout; this means that, besides the restriction from types which possess dedicated casting builtins (enums, pointers, error sets), bare structs, error unions, slices, optionals, and any other type without a well-defined memory layout, also cannot be used in this operation.
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{#header_close#}