concurrency problem with pointers

[evilrat]

On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 23:36:34 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> In short, you're trying to send a pointer via std.concurrency.  
> The easiest way is to cast it to/from shared.  Otherwise, you'd 
> need to make it an opaque type like a size_t rather than a type 
> D can tell is a reference.

sure cast to size_t and back works, but can shoot in the leg 
later anytime :(