Update

Author: odow

src/Nonlinear/ReverseAD/utils.jl

@@ -48,15 +48,15 @@ end
 
 Base.getindex(x::_UnsafeVectorView, i::CartesianIndex{1}) = getindex(x, i[1])
 
-function Base.setindex!(x::_UnsafeVectorView{T}, value::T, i::Integer) where {T}
+function Base.setindex!(x::_UnsafeVectorView, value, i::Integer)
+    # We don't need to worry about `value` being the right type here because
+    # x.ptr is a `::Ptr{T}`, so even though it is called `unsafe_store!`, there
+    # is still a type convertion that happens so that we're not just chucking
+    # the bits of value into `x.ptr`.
     unsafe_store!(x.ptr, value, i + x.offset)
     return value
 end
 
-function Base.setindex!(x::_UnsafeVectorView{T}, value, i::Integer) where {T}
-    return setindex!(x, convert(T, value), i)
-end
-
 function Base.setindex!(x::_UnsafeVectorView, value, i::CartesianIndex{1})
     return setindex!(x, value, i[1])
 end