On 02/01/2008, Yossi Kreinin <yossi.krei...@mobileye.com> wrote: > I think. Now, the question is, and I really mean "the question" because I > don't > know the answer: what does reinterpret_cast do? I think it's supposed to be > for > "reinterpreting the bits of x having type A as if it really had the type B", > but > I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than that. I only used it once to pass > parameters to an asm macro and then it stopped working upon a compiler upgrade > and I changed the spelling to C-like and it worked.
It's for converting between pointers to unrelated types. I *think* it can also be used for refs (foo&). I *think* it can also be used for storing a pointer into a sufficently large int, and vice versa.
