Mar 15, 2011 · Casting can be used to clearly state that you are calling a child method and not a parent method. So in this case it's always a downcast or more correctly, a narrowing conversion.

Jun 23, 2013 · There are rules about casting pointers, a number of which are in clause 6.3.2.3 of the C 2011 standard. Among other things, pointers to objects may be cast to other pointers to …

The C-style casts can do virtually all types of casting from normally safe casts done by static_cast<> () and dynamic_cast<> () to potentially dangerous casts like const_cast<> (), …

Dec 26, 2015 · I know what implicit and explicit casting are. Now I have a question for which I could not find a satisfactory answer. What are the advantages and disadvantages of implicit …

2 Your problem is not the lack of "dynamic casting". Casting Integer to Double isn't possible at all. You seem to want to give Java an object of one type, a field of a possibly incompatible type, …

Possible Duplicate: Casting vs using the ‘as’ keyword in the CLR I recently learned about a different way to cast. Rather than using SomeClass someObject = (SomeClass) obj; one can …

Sep 25, 2008 · Direct Casting Types don't have to be strictly related. It comes in all types of flavors. Custom implicit/explicit casting: Usually a new object is created. Value Type Implicit: …

Aug 26, 2008 · Static cast is also used to cast pointers to related types, for example casting void* to the appropriate type. dynamic_cast Dynamic cast is used to convert pointers and references …

May 28, 2017 · How do I cast an int to an enum in C++? For example: enum Test { A, B }; int a = 1; How do I convert a to type Test::A?

Proper way of casting pointer types Asked 12 years, 9 months ago Modified 1 year, 2 months ago Viewed 129k times