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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: calling own methods from constructor
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Tobias Blass <tobiasblass@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 2011-04-07, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 Apr, 14:19, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>> Casting in C++ is something different than in Java.
>>> Although, if you really do C, not C++, then it's it's
>>> much more like Java, except for the lacking safety net.
>> I don't know about C++, but in C casting is not like Java at all.

I dare to disagree, but this group here is not the place to elaborate
on it.  In a nutshell: C++ casts are just so much more unlike Java's ...

> Is there any case where the C compiler rejects casts? I cannot imagine an
> example.

Most likely it will reject casts between different structures or between
structures and primitives. (too lazy to test this now, though)