Beta D 2.071.2-b3

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 30 23:32:04 PDT 2016


On 2016-08-31 01:08, Martin Nowak wrote:

> Well there was reasoning to choose that solution instead of the other
> (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6078) and the fact that private
> members aren't accessible (set/get) is a good indication that nobody
> needs this.
> Adding an unsafe facility to access private members is a separate
> problem, but please see the changelog for how to achieve this already by
> mixing in templates.

In addition to using .tupleof to bypass protection it's possible to 
return a pointer to the symbol to bypass protection as well, fixing that 
would require some serious flow analysis. It's also possible to inspect 
the symbol table to access private symbols at runtime.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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