Convert between slices of different types

Question

I get a byte slice ([]byte) from a UDP socket and want to treat it as an integer slice ([]int32) without changing the underlying array, and vice ve

Answer 1

I had the size unknown problem and tweaked the previous unsafe method with the following code. given a byte slice b ...

int32 slice is (*(*[]int)(Pointer(&b)))[:len(b)/4]

The array to slice example may be given a fictional large constant and the slice bounds used in the same way since no array is allocated.