Get the address of an object, within the object itself

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 13:33:23 Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 21:27:00 Andrew Chapman via Digitalmars-d-
> learn wrote:
> > Hi all, sorry if this question is silly, but is it possible to
> > get the address of an object within the object itself?
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > class Node
> > {
> >
> >      this()
> >      {
> >
> >          writeln(&this);  // Doesn't work
> >
> >      }
> >
> > }
> >
> > auto node = new Node();
> > writeln(&node); // Does work
>
> This does _not_ give you the address of the Node object. It gives you the
> address of the reference.

IIRC, the only way to get the address of the object itself would be to cast
it to void*, but it's not something that I do normally, so I'd have to
experiment a bit to be sure.

- Jonathan M Davis