How to get the pointer of "this" ?

Mike Parker aldacron at gmail.com
Mon May 25 16:39:30 UTC 2020


On Monday, 25 May 2020 at 08:39:23 UTC, John Burton wrote:

> I believe that in D *this* is a reference to the
> object and not a pointer like in C++.
> So I think that writing &this might be what you need?

No. A class reference is a pointer under the hood. Getting its 
address will result in a pointer to the reference variable 
itself, not to the class instance. When passing a reference to a 
C API, casting it directly to the C type is correct.


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