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Re: Allowing access to object representations

From: language.lawyer_at <language.lawyer_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:05:24 +0300
On 21/08/2019 11:22, sdkrystian via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Using reinterpret_cast, you can access the first element, but thats about it (pointer arithmetic is UB)

No, u can't access "the first element".
reinterpret_cast won't change the pointer value, the result of reinterpret_cast "points to" the same object to which the argument of reinterpret_cast pointed to.
Indirection through such a pointer yields an lvalue denoting the object to which pointer points to and this influences lvalue-to-rvalue conversion applied to (or assignment through) this lvalue in a funny way.

Received on 2019-08-21 13:07:30