How to cast to "void*", while bypassing alias this or opCast

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 11:02:03 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 10:45:52 UTC, monarch_dodra 
> wrote:
>> I'm investigating a phobos regression. From "doesPointTo":
>>
>> //----
>>    static if (isPointer!S || is(S == class) || is(S == 
>> interface))
>>    {
>>        const m = cast(void*) source;
>> //----
>>
>> Basically, given a "pointer like" structure, I want the void* 
>> equivalent. I really don't care about how "S" works, and am 
>> "observing" the "source" object as nothing more than a bag of 
>> member fields.
>>
>> The issue though is that it turns out that such code can and 
>> will call either opCast or alias this, which is *not* what we 
>> want at all in this piece of code.
>>
>> Is there any way to do a "hard" reinterpret cast in such a 
>> situation?
>
> *cast(void**)&source

Hum... now I feel retarded.

In my mind I had "I want re-interpret, not address of, so no 
operator&".

Thanks.