what operator(s) should I overload to prevent this?
drug
drug2004 at bk.ru
Mon Oct 16 12:30:39 UTC 2017
16.10.2017 15:18, Biotronic пишет:
> On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 12:00:13 UTC, drug wrote:
>> I refactored `MyStructure` added own implementation of malloced array
>> based on pureRealloc/pureFree instead of dynamic array I used before
>> and now I have error:
>> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression get(msg.getData()) of type
>> const(MyStructure) to MyStructure.
>>
>> What operators should I overload to let this conversion? I've tryed
>> opCast and it fails in other call sites, also I've tried opAssign - it
>> didn't works, what worked is wrapping in ctor - MyStruct(const_var).
>> But using ctor is not convenient.
>
> The reason this doesn't work is you have some sort of non-immutable
> pointer, reference or array in your struct. I'm not sure why this worked
> before, since I have no idea what your code looks like. Hence, I can
> only give limited advice. Notably, the reasons this gives you a warning
> is because it would be unsafe to do a simple cast.
>
> You might have turned immutable(T)[] into T[] (where T is int, byte,
> char, what-have-you). If this is the case, consider why this happened,
> and try to turn it back into immutable(T)[]. The same goes for
> immutable(T)*. Remember that an alias can make something immutable, so
> it might not be immediately obvious.
>
> If you're fine with being unsafe, and can't find a solution like the
> above, consider this:
>
> struct MyStruct {
> MyStruct getUnsafe() const {
> return cast(MyStruct)this;
> }
> alias getUnsafe this;
> }
>
> --
> Biotronic
Hmm, I started to write reduced case and probably found the reason -
I've changed slice to const data by slice to mutable data. Will
investigate further. Thank you for your answer!
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