If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

C++: dynamic_cast<> et al

satchmo · 2006-02-03 16:06:24

So does anyone regularly use static_cast<>, dynamic_cast<>, const_cast<> or reinterpret_cast<>? It's one of the few areas of C++ that's still fuzzy for me, and the explanations I've read aren't very satisfactory. When is the C-style (type)variable cast not good enough? Is it more correct to use the above C++-style casts…

Options

03-02-2006 5:06pm

#1

satchmo

Registered Users Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 1999

Posts: 1366

So does anyone regularly use static_cast<>, dynamic_cast<>, const_cast<> or reinterpret_cast<>? It's one of the few areas of C++ that's still fuzzy for me, and the explanations I've read aren't very satisfactory. When is the C-style (type)variable cast not good enough? Is it more correct to use the above C++-style casts instead? And what are the performance implications?

0