Struct member functions emit unnecessary call to _d_assert_msg

[Daniel Murphy]

"Mike"  wrote in message news:lxusmgyievzioacmgwmc at forum.dlang.org...
> What bothers me is the branch at <bb 2>. It looks like it's checking the 
> struct instance to see if it is null. Is it even possible for it to be 
> null?  Can this be improved?

It's checking if the 'this' pointer is null.  Syntactically it's a 'this' 
_reference_, but it can still be null.

void MyFunction()
{
     TestStruct *test;
     test.Print()
}

> I imagine in a tight loop (for example, an alpha blend function on an 
> array of pixels), this can be a significant performance hindrance if every 
> call has to make this check.

It should disappear when compiled with '-frelease'.