Re: reinterpret_cast

Hi Carl

Look at the statment below:

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That's incorrect. struct/class makes no difference: the C-style cast still
behaves like static_cast, not reinterpret_cast, regardless of whether the
types were declared using the class keyword or the struct keyword. In fact,

in such cases the C cast is always equivalent to static_cast (which will
produce the same result as reinterpret_cast in some cases).
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This is wrong, believe me - the only reason why I mentioned it is because I
actually tried to change struct to class in the example that you have
presented. When I compiled it with struct, everything went the way you have
said. However,
when I changed it to class, I got the compile error, telling me that "static
cast exists, but is unavailable". There was no problem with reinterpret_cast.
Therefore, I removed static_cast, and tried to run the program - C-style
cast and reinterpret_cast worked the same way, and both returned wrong
results(they both returned a pointer to class A, rather than to class B)

Regards

Anton Bassov
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