Is it possible to access private members of a class?

Question

Is it possible to access private members of a class in c++.

provided you don't have a friend function and You don't have access to the class definition

Answer 1

You mean using some pointer arithmetic to gain the access ? It is possible but is definitely dangerous. Take a look at this question also: Accessing private members

Answer 2

I think there was some old school trick like this:

#define private public
#include "header.h"
#define private private

But you are strongly discouraged to do this (I've read quickly that the said something about this in the C++ standard) - if you want to read more about this google for "#define private public"