I am confused on how casting structs works. According to point 9 of https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#CastExpression:

Casting a value v to a struct S, when value is not a struct of the same type, is equivalent to:

```d
S(v)
```

However, the following program compiles and the resulting execution indicates the bits are just being reinterpreted.

```d
// casttest.d
import std;

struct Foo {
    int i;
    float x;
}

struct Bar {
    float i;
    int x;
}

void main(){
    Foo foo = Foo(10, 1.035);
    writeln(foo);
    auto b = cast(Bar)foo;
    writeln(b);
    auto c = cast(Bar)b;
    writeln(c);
// auto d = Bar(foo); // casttest.d(21): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression `foo` of type `Foo` to `float` // auto e = Bar(b); // casttest.d(22): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression `b` of type `Bar` to `float`
}
```

Execution results in:

```
Foo(10, 1.035)
Bar(1.4013e-44, 1065646817)
Bar(1.4013e-44, 1065646817)
```

Additionally, the commented out lines indicate that what the spec claims the cast is equivalent to wouldn’t even work.

Is this a bug in my understanding? Bug in the spec? Bug in the compiler?

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