D and Secure Programming

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/2/2016 8:50 PM, Jacob wrote:
>     import std.stdio;
>
>     struct SomeStruct
>     {
>         int value;
>
>         void func()
>         {
>             writeln(value);
>         }
>
>     }
>
>     void main()
>     {
>         SomeStruct someStruct;
>         someStruct.value = 333;
>
>         auto func = cast(void function(ref SomeStruct))&SomeStruct.func;
>
>         func(someStruct);
>     }
>
> Has worked so far for me.

That's cool, but it does rely on the ABI of regular functions matching that of 
member functions, which isn't true on all platforms.