DDBI and MySQL

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 2008-08-29 09:47:30 +0200, "Chris R. Miller" 
<lordSaurontheGreat at gmail.com> said:

> [...]
> Once I got that cleared up, I started a bunch of "cannot implicitly cast
> foo* to foo*" errors, which mystified me.  I think it's because one is
> tossing an alias of something to something that's expecting the
> un-aliased something, and so it's having some issues.
> 
> So attempting to fix the issues didn't work terribly well.  I beat
> through a few pointer issues to get hung up on a weird pointer issue
> which emits this error:
> 
> dbi\mysql\MysqlDatabase.d(194): constructor
> dbi.mysql.MysqlResult.MysqlResult.th
> is (st_mysql_res*) does not match parameter types (st_mysql_res*)
> dbi\mysql\MysqlDatabase.d(194): Error: cannot implicitly convert
> expression (cas
> t(st_mysql_res*)*results) of type st_mysql_res* to st_mysql_res*
> 
> I'm pretty puzzled.  I've tried casting it explicitly, and it doesn't
> work.  I'd really appreciate it if someone knew what is going on.  When
> I explicitly cast it, it still give the same error.

I had a similar error today in my template code with int* and int* (I 
think also connected with aliases and nesting of templates).
I haven't distilled it yet, but using

	cast(T*)(cast(size_t)a+cast(size_t)b)

in my case fixed the issue...

Fawzi