From: Philip <snzzbk@gmail.com>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: reinterpret_casting a non-POD
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25c035550808160442n695bb421m79e58ede2d203e0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Given a simple but currently non-POD class such as:
struct Point
{
float x, y, z;
Point () {}
Point (float x_, float y_, float z_): x (x_), y (y_), z (z_) {}
};
Is there any risk involved in the following operations?:
Point p;
float* pp = reinterpret_cast<float*> (&p);
void* buffer = // acquire memory
Point* points = reinterpret_cast<Point*> (buffer);
// do stuff that treats buffer as array of Points
float* floats = reinterpret_cast<float*> (points);
Thanks.
next reply other threads:[~2008-08-16 11:43 UTC|newest]
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2008-08-16 12:31 Philip [this message]
2008-08-17 4:08 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
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