On 8/21/22 19:10, Walt Karas wrote:
> Yes I'd bet big this technique is an often reinvented wheel.
>
> Why do you prefer two static casts involving void * over a reinterpret
> cast? Also, your C style cast is really a reinterpret cast. I think
> the reason for having reinterpret cast is that it's a (greppable)
> warning that something is dangerous. And this technique is fairly
> dangerous, mistakes can elude static checking.

Yeah I just got the habit of not using any reinterpret_casts from the
Boost community standards, so it's just another way of writing them down.

And I wasn't sure how alignments and little to big endian machines would
convert them.


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