It may be time to post a question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:59 PM 12/8/2002, you wrote:
>--- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm not saying I hold the truth. I'm offering my reading, just as others >> are doing. > >Yeah, that's ok. I meant: it's unlikely that we can really find a >quote from the standard that says the last word here. Maybe the intent >was to make reinterpret_casting to void* implementation-defined, maybe >the intent was to make it legal and equivalent to static_cast<void*> >or, maybe, the intent was to disallow it, exactly because such a >conversion is already possible with static_cast. I don't see enough >evidence to say which of the three possibilities is right, but maybe >it's just me. Frankly, I would ask to the writer. I remember that >Steve Adamczyk is the author of the paragraph about static_cast. >Probably he also wrote the one about reinterpret_cast and can say us >what was the intent. If you drop him a mail, I will be glad to be >cc-ed. > > >[...] >> | char * p = ... >> | reinterpret_cast<char*>(p) >> | >> | is illegal, because the sentence above talks about conversion to *a >> | different* type. And the conversions that are not listed cannot be done with >> | reinterpret_cast). >> >> Well, some of us, by the very nature of our jobs have to make sense of >> some dispositions in the Standard. Which means we've to _interpret_ >> some portions. I don't know of any compiler that rejects the >> above on the ground of what you're saying. Do you? > >No. But it is an interpretation. Probably, faced with such a doubt a >compiler writer goes making a quick test with Comeau online and just >concludes that his interpretation is "too literal" :-) As you say, >this is "making sense" of a disposition. That shouldn't happen, the >standard should always have a precise and unambiguous meaning, but it >happens in practice. And, to be fair, we should say that if reading >the standard is difficult writing it is even more so. > >Genny. > > >_______________________________________________ >Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
