[boost] Re: dangerous_cast<>

From: Eric Woodruff (Eric.Woodruff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-04 11:47:16

"Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:m3n0nlsvvh.fsf_at_uniton.integrable-solutions.net...
> "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> | Does this have any merit whatsoever?
> |
> | template <typename T, typename U>
> | T* dangerous_cast(U* p)
> | {
> |     return static_cast<T*>(static_cast<void*>(p));
> | }
>
> Is it any different from reinterpret_cast<T*>(p) ?

no because either way, the only thing you can do with that T* result is cast
it back to its original type before using it, which is the very you do with
reinterpret_cast.