Turning off C++ casting?

Jack Lloyd lloyd@acm.jhu.edu
Thu Feb 20 18:00:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Vladimir Merzliakov wrote:

> I think expression:
>
> (dynamic_cast<T*>(v)==0 || dynamic_cast<T*>(v)==reinterpret_cast<T*>(v))
>
> can be false in case multiply inheritance and virtual inheritance.

Yes, I've run into this before, where dynamic_cast works and a normal
C-style cast or static_cast does not (which can be exceptionally confusing
the first time you run into it).
 -Jack



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