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Re: why use static_cast ?

From Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: why use static_cast ?
Date 2022-10-20 00:21 -0500
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On 10/19/2022 9:40 PM, daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 10:01:35 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
>> I put the following cast into my code and one of my programmers wants me
>> to use static cast.
> 
> I'm pretty sure static_cast would give an invalid type conversion error.
> 
>> longint nfac [8];
>> fem::str <8> * nfac_str = (fem::str <8> *) nfac;
>>
>> fem::str <8> is an 8 character object that acts like a Fortran
>> character*8. longint is a long long.
>>
> I think that's undefined behaviour.
> 
> Daniel

Why ?  They are both pointers to 8 byte objects.  I am just declaring 
that I want to use the same address as a 8 byte character string (no 
null !) or a long long integer.

Thanks,
Lynn

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why use static_cast ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-10-19 21:01 -0500
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    Re: why use static_cast ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-10-20 13:21 -0500
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