Struct life time

[Qian Xu]

Hi All,

I am new to D community. I have some problems with TimeOfDay struct.

I have defined a class:
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   class Test
   {
     TimeOfDay* getTime() {
       return a_valid_timeofday_pointer;
     }
     void setTime(TimeOfDay* value) {
       setValueAsTime(*value);
     }
     void setValueAsTime(TimeOfDay value) {
       Cout(TimeToChar(value)).newline;
     }
     /* the rest implementation of this class ... */
   }
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I try to test if setTime() works properly.

If I call
   Cout(TimeToChar(*TestObj.getTime())).newline;
It works. The console will show "10:00:00" for example.

If I call
   TestObj.setTime(TestObj.getTime());
It does not work. The console will show "33140305:48698544:485947594" 
for example.

If I change the setTime() function to
   void setTime(TimeOfDay* value) {
     Cout(TimeToChar(*value)).newline;
   }
or
   void setTime(TimeOfDay* value) {
     TimeOfDay copy = *value;
     setValueAsTime(copy);
   }
It works.

What's wrong with my code? (BTW: I do not want to change TimeOfDay* to 
TimeOfDay, otherwise null cannot be passed in.)

Thanks in advance.
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