Regarding the following C++ program:
class Base { };
class Child : public Base { };
int main()
{
// Normal: using child as base is allowed
Child *c = new Child();
Base *b = c;
// Double pointers: apparently can't use Child** as Base**
Child **cc = &c;
Base **bb = cc;
return 0;
}
GCC produces the following error on the last assignment statement:
error: invalid conversion from ‘Child**’ to ‘Base**’
My question is in two parts:
reinterpret_cast
. Using these casts means throwing away all type safety. Is there anything I can add to the class definitions to make these pointers cast implicitly, or at least phrase the conversion in a way that allows me to use static_cast
instead? If this was allowed, you could write this:
*bb = new Base;
And c
would end up pointing to an instance of Base
. Bad.
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