struct opCast to void* and back

[Robert Clipsham]

On 11/04/10 12:47, Nrgyzer wrote:
>> Try *cast(MyStruct*). In opCast you are returning&this, which is of
>> type MyStruct* until it is implicitly cast to void*. In the writefln()
>> you then cast it back to MyStruct*, and dereference it so you can use
>> it. In your version you are trying to cast from a pointer to the struct
>> to the actual struct, which is why it doesn't work.
>
> By using *cast(MyStruct*) I get the following message: "Error: 1invalid UTF-8 sequence"

I don't know how writefln() works in D1 (I presume that's what you're 
using), but try the following:

writefln( "%s", (*cast(MyStruct*)temp).toString() );

I don't have a D1/Phobos compiler available to me to test, so I don't 
know if that will help. You usually get that error when trying to print 
/use strings with invalid UTF sequences in them, which looking at your 
program, shouldn't be happening. If you're using code other than what 
you're showing that could be it.