"Gabriel Dos Reis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> What do mean exactly by a "valid Foo*"?
I mean that reinterpret_cast<> may legally map what you think ought
to be a Foo* in a T* to a value that does not point to any Foo object.
At least
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Thanks for your patience.
> >
> > Now, imagine an implementation where the original type is remembered,
> > then dereferencing the pointer obtaine
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> "Eric Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> [...]
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> | > Thus, given that h.storage is properly aligned, (which is the purpose
of
> | the
> | > other union member), after "new(h.storage) Foo
"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Several committee members (Gaby, Dave Abrahams, Greg, me,
> etc.) will be happy to post something on that list if the question is
> well-formed and is one that only committee members can answer
"David B. Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| "Gabriel Dos Reis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| > [...]
| > What do mean exactly by a "valid Foo*"?
|
| I mean that reinterpret_cast<> may legally map what you think ought
| to be a Foo* in a T*
"Eric Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| "Gabriel Dos Reis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| > "Eric Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > [...]
| >
| > | > Thus, given that h.storage is properly aligned, (which is the purpose
| of
"David B. Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
| 2) Under what circumstances is the following equivalent to the
| above:
|
| reinterpret_cast(p);
One of the issues that distinguishly arose during this disucssion is
whether
reinterpret_cast(ptr)
is well-formed. (My compilers don't reje
