How to get the address of an instance of a class

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 17:32:25 UTC, dokutoku wrote:
> I wrote the following code to get the address of a class 
> instance, but it doesn't work.
> Please let me know if there is a way to write it to work 
> properly.
>
> private import std;
>
> ```
> class C
> {
> 	C* this_pointer()
> 	{
> 		return this;
> 	}
> }
>
> void main()
> {
> 	C Z = new C();
> 	writeln(&Z == Z.this_pointer());
> }
> ```

Classes are always references. I think you can just cast 'Z' to 
void* to get the address.

Conversely &Z should be an address on the stack.