• dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> Oct 28 2009
• "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> Oct 28 2009
• dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> Oct 28 2009

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

For making the GC precise, I need to be able to get at the size of a class
instance at compile time.  The .sizeof property returns the size of a
reference, i.e. (void*).sizeof.  I need the amount of bytes an instance uses.

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> writes:

dsimcha wrote:
 For making the GC precise, I need to be able to get at the size of a class
 instance at compile time.  The .sizeof property returns the size of a
 reference, i.e. (void*).sizeof.  I need the amount of bytes an instance uses.


Not sure if it's what you're after, but there is something called 
__traits(classInstanceSize,T).

-Lars

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

== Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad (public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet)'s article
 dsimcha wrote:
 For making the GC precise, I need to be able to get at the size of a class
 instance at compile time.  The .sizeof property returns the size of a
 reference, i.e. (void*).sizeof.  I need the amount of bytes an instance uses.


 __traits(classInstanceSize,T).
 -Lars


Yep, that's it.  For some reason I didn't think to look there.