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Re: Assign pointers of different objects to the same pointer
- From: me22 <me22 dot ca at gmail dot com>
- To: "Duft Markus" <Markus dot Duft at salomon dot at>
- Cc: sebastian <sebastian dot bw at freenet dot de>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:51:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: Assign pointers of different objects to the same pointer
- References: <18597F2B47F1394A9B309945EC724112FBEE32@servex01.wamas.com>
On 06/07/07, Duft Markus <Markus.Duft@salomon.at> wrote:
void* ptr;
// Dynamic cast, checks types at runtime
var1 = dynamic_cast<MyType1*>(ptr);
I'm quite confidant that you can't dynamic_cast from a void*.
( How would it be able to check? It can't. )
Also you may want to look at the other *_cast operators (static_cast,
etc)...
Simple description here:
http://gpwiki.org/index.php/C_plus_plus:Modern_C_plus_plus:Appendices:Casts
~ Scott