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Re: void pointer and map (fwd)

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Anitha Boyapati <anithab at sankhya dot com>
Cc: Ted Byers <r dot ted dot byers at rogers dot com>, <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:09:16 +0000
Subject: Re: void pointer and map (fwd)
References: <282314.83540.qm@web88305.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0712221110210.25040-100000@linux42.sankhya.com>

Anitha Boyapati writes:
 > 
 > I have one more question : Now that my code is heavily loaded with 
 > reinterpret_cast, does this have a performance problem ? In short, 
 > does exhaustive usage of reinterpret_cast hinder performance ? 

It certainly won't help.  Because the pointer can point to anything
the compiler isn't able to do any alias analysis that will help
performance.

Andrew.

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References:
- Re: void pointer and map (fwd)
  - From: Ted Byers
- Re: void pointer and map (fwd)
  - From: Anitha Boyapati

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