Assign pointers of different objects to the same pointer

[me22]

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