D-Programming-Language/phobos — pull request #1098 by AndrejMitrovic (2013-01-25 18:52:53+00:00)
Title: Issue 9336 - Format should work on shared address.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9336

I don't think it will cause any problems having the pointer typed to its element type rather than typed to void, since:

`pointer -> qualifier -> type`

implicitly converts to:

`pointer -> qualifier -> void`

If this isn't always true than we could either force a cast to const(void*) or use some kind of template helper to extract a const(qualified(pointer to void)). Anyway the address is formatted and not the pointed value so I don't think the pointed type is all that important.