On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 20:01:39 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
Cannot get the offset of static members of a struct
That's because static members do not have an offset. They are not part of the struct in memory, just in name.
We can clearly get a pointer to the static struct X
There's barely any such thing as a static struct. That's just a struct that stands without outside context.... which is almost all structs, actually, so the term isn't special.
since &X.x is effectively the address of X(regardless nomenclature and terminology issues in D trying to hide this).
No, it isn't. Static members are stored in an entirely different place than non-static members. They are really just global variables in memory with their in-source name being nested somewhere else.
