const_cast<> accepting type other than ref or ptr

Guillaume Laurent glaurent@worldnet.fr
Tue Mar 9 16:28:00 GMT 1999


"Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> At the risk of sounding stupid: Where exactly does it say that, in the
> standard?

Personally, I have no idea :-). I don't have a copy of the standard to
start with, I just asked on Usenet about a funny behavior (that using
const_cast<> triggers a call the to the copy ctor), and James and
Gabriel replied me that the code shouldn't have compiled in the 1st
place.

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					Guillaume.
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