Manifest constant class instances

[lngns]

On Sunday, 4 November 2018 at 20:50:45 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 November 2018 at 19:28:14 UTC, lngns wrote:
>> On Sunday, 4 November 2018 at 19:20:53 UTC, kinke wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 4 November 2018 at 19:02:33 UTC, lngns wrote:
>>>> I can understand for pointers to struct, as the pointer will 
>>>> be invalid at runtime, but, unless I am mistaken, classes 
>>>> are not concerned by pointer semantics.
>>>
>>> A class reference is a pointer too, so using it at runtime 
>>> would be invalid too.
>>
>> Yes but given it works with static constants I would assume 
>> the compiler already abstracts away this point. Otherwise 
>> there would be a mismatch between what the compiler allocates 
>> and what the runtime allocates.
>> Am I wrong?
>
> The instance for a static class reference lives in the data 
> segment of the binary and is not GC-allocated.

Yes this was actually my point.
Both the compiler and the program refer to the same object, so 
the pointer is necessarily valid at runtime.