ctor style cast vs c style cast

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Fri Dec 14 10:40:00 GMT 2007


"Peter A. Felvegi" <petschy@praire-chicken.com> writes:

> today i've run into this: if i cast a double value to an unsigned int
> using the C style cast when passing it to printf, it's fine. however, if
> i use the ctor style cast, i get a compile error.

This question is off-topic here, please use gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org in
future.  Functional cast notation [expr.type.conv] only allows a single
simple-type-specifier, but unsigned int isn't.  Use static_cast<unsigned
int> instead.

Andreas.

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