Turning off C++ casting?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Thursday 20 February 2003 13:17, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@polimi.it> writes:
> |  The point was to avoid the performance impact (assuming there is) of
> | dynamic_cast in non-debugging releases.
>
> If you know for sure that the derivation actually holds, then use
> static_cast<>, -not- reinterpret_cast<>.

You do because of the assert.  So the correct answer to the poster's question 
is to use

assert (dynamic_cast<ExtendedObject*>(&baseObj) != NULL);
ExtendedObject& obj = *static_cast<ExtendedObject*>(&baseObj);

Paolo