• d-bugmail puremagic.com (30/30) Apr 29 2012 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8001
• Namespace (16/48) May 02 2012 Workaround:
• Namespace (30/30) May 02 2012 This works fine:
• d-bugmail puremagic.com (11/11) Feb 05 2013 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8001

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8001

           Summary: Alias this takes ownership of explicit cast
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com



07:41:14 PDT ---
When attempting to downcast a class which uses alias this, the operation fails
because the cast is applied to the item aliased.

I think the semantics should be to attempt an implicit cast (alias this), then
a cast of the top class, afterwards the alias this item can be casted.

test.d(3): Error: e2ir: cannot cast a.val of type int to type test.B

void main () {
    A a = new B();
    B b = cast(B) a;
}

class A {
    int val;
    alias val this;
}
class B : A {}

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"Namespace" <rswhite4 googlemail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 14:40:06 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8001

            Summary: Alias this takes ownership of explicit cast
            Product: D
            Version: D2
           Platform: All
         OS/Version: All
             Status: NEW
           Severity: normal
           Priority: P2
          Component: DMD
         AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
         ReportedBy: Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com



 <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> 2012-04-29 07:41:14 PDT ---
 When attempting to downcast a class which uses alias this, the 
 operation fails
 because the cast is applied to the item aliased.

 I think the semantics should be to attempt an implicit cast 
 (alias this), then
 a cast of the top class, afterwards the alias this item can be 
 casted.

 test.d(3): Error: e2ir: cannot cast a.val of type int to type 
 test.B

 void main () {
     A a = new B();
     B b = cast(B) a;
 }

 class A {
     int val;
     alias val this;
 }
 class B : A {}

Workaround:

import std.stdio;

class A {
    int val;

    alias val this;
}

class B : A { }

void main () {
    A a = new B();
    B* b = cast(B*) &a;
}

But i have no idea how this can work implicit as long as this bug 
isn't fixed.
Maybe it can work with an opCast in B, which cast first to B* and 
then to B.

"Namespace" <rswhite4 googlemail.com> writes:

This works fine:

[code]
import std.stdio;

class A {
	int val;

	alias val this;
	
	T opCast(T : Object)() {
		return to!(T)(this);
	}
}

class B : A {

}

T to(T : Object, U : Object)(const U obj) {
	return *(cast(T*) &obj);
}

void main () {
	A a = new B();
	a.val = 42;
	
	writefln("a.val: %d", a.val);

	B* b = cast(B*) &a;
	writefln("*b.val: %d", b.val);

	B b1 = to!(B)(a);
	writefln("b1.val: %d", b1.val);
	
	B b2 = cast(B) a;
	writefln("b2.val: %d", b2.val);
}
[/code]

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8001


Maksim Zholudev <maximzms gmail.com> changed:

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PST ---
May be connected with
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6777

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