Atomic loads are only needed for volatile variables, not for all kinds of shared data...

Yes.

Right.

Exactly.

I think I would prefer if the compiler would generate atomic operations...

I think you misunderstand the problem here. Conversion means changing the type.

Once you have...

The conversion T* -> shared(T)* isn't ok, of course. And it's correctly disallowed...

...approached this from the wrong angle. Implicit conversions are not the problem. Reading/writing is...

Atomic loading and storing, from what I understand, is usually limited to about a word...

...requires a lot of in place case conversions and comparisons and such. I want to...

...store.
* Other conversions are not allowed.

Or alternatively, simply disallow all those conversions, and tell...

...be ok, too, I think.

Without the conversions from/to string, the struct just forwards...

...All bindings do not have cpp interface conversions in D. But these will be the...