unsafe_convert
unsafe_convert(T,x)
Convert x to a value of type T
In cases where convert would need to take a Julia object and turn it into a Ptr, this function should be used to define and perform that conversion.
Be careful to ensure that a julia reference to x exists as long as the result of this function will be used. Accordingly, the argument x to this function should never be an expression, only a variable name or field reference. For example, x=a.b.c is acceptable, but x=[a,b,c] is not.
The unsafe prefix on this function indicates that using the result of this function after the x argument to this function is no longer accessible to the program may cause undefined behavior, including program corruption or segfaults, at any later time.
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base, big, bytes2hex, cconvert, complex, convert, dec, hex, hex2bytes, hex2num, oct, oftype, parse, promote, signed, unsafe_convert, unsigned, widen,User Contributed Notes
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