class.sizeof

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>
>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't find a way to get a class sizeof property - it returns 4 (32bit
>>> pointer size) always. I tried many ways but still can't figure out how to do
>>> this. Documentation says that
>>>
>>> ".sizeof applied to a class object returns the size of the class
>>> reference, not the class instantiation."
>>>
>>> Is it possible? Any idea is much appreciated.
>>
>> No nice way to do it..
>>
>> auto sz = myclass.classinfo.init.length;
>>
>> problem this is not a compiletime constant,
>>
>> In D2 you can use __traits to get it...
>>
>> Kinda lame if you ask me :P
>>
>> how about .instancesizeof ? I doubt that's even a remotely common variable
>> name ...
>
> I added an "isizeof" proposal to the issue tracker maybe two years ago.
>  Feel free to vote it up if you'd like.

But W will say "it's already accessible through __traits."  Not to
sound fatalistic, but do you honestly think this would be added to D1?