Re: std.reflection prototype

[bitwise via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:26:48 -0400, bitwise <bitwise....@gmail.com> wrote:
But AFAIK, this is NOT ok in C++ because of the way inheritance works..  
is this safe in D?


To clarify, I'm talking about doing doing things by Object pointer or void  
pointer, which seems to work fine:

class Test {
        int a = 4;
        private int b = 5;
        void print(){ writeln(b); }
}

struct Test2 {
        int a = 4;
        private int b = 5;
        void print(){ writeln(b); }
}

void main()
{
        Test test = new Test;
        Object obj = test;
        int* b = cast(int*)(cast(void*)obj + Test.b.offsetof);
        *b = 1234;
        test.print();

        Test2 test2 = Test2();
        void *obj = &test2;
        int* b = cast(int*)(obj + Test2.b.offsetof);
        *b = 1234;
        test2.print();
}