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Re: automatic casting

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
To: kartick Vaddadi <kartick_vaddadi at yahoo dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:58:22 +0200
Subject: Re: automatic casting
References: <20040831124904.71199.qmail@web20424.mail.yahoo.com>

why not eliminate the requirement to cast, since the
instanceof ensures that the object is of the right

You should ask Sun about this, not the GCC community; there are no GNU extensions to the Java language. Anyway the answer is probably going to be that while this case is obvious, there are going to be more and more complicated cases that the compiler won't possibly figure out.

Paolo

References:
- automatic casting
  - From: kartick Vaddadi

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