Bug 19651 – Missing compile errors when initializing static char array with slice of mismatching length

When initializing with or assigning to a string slice of mismatching length, a compile error should be emitted, consistent with all other non-char/wchar/dchar types. LDC doesn't expect such cruelty in the codegen AST, at least not for static array initialization, and currently doesn't produce a runtime error, but happily reads beyond the source string. void main() { { enum src = [1, 2]; int[64] buf = src[0..64]; // runtime error: range violation buf = src[0..3]; // compile error: mismatched array lengths buf = src[0..2]; // compile error: mismatched array lengths buf = src[0..1]; // compile error: mismatched array lengths buf = src[0..0]; // compile error: cannot cast int[0] to int[64] } { enum src = "ab"; char[64] buf = src[0..64]; // runtime error: range violation buf = src[0..3]; // compile error: mismatched array lengths buf = src[0..2]; // runtime error: range violation buf = src[0..1]; // runtime error: range violation buf = src[0..0]; // runtime error: range violation } }

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