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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: kartick Vaddadi <kartick_vaddadi@yahoo.com>,
	GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: automatic casting
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <413475EE.6000502@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040831124904.71199.qmail@web20424.mail.yahoo.com>

> why not eliminate the requirement to cast, since the
> instanceof ensures that the object is of the right

You should ask Sun about this, not the GCC community; there are no GNU 
extensions to the Java language.  Anyway the answer is probably going to 
be that while this case is obvious, there are going to be more and more 
complicated cases that the compiler won't possibly figure out.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31 13:01 kartick Vaddadi
2004-08-31 13:03 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2004-08-31 14:41 ` Diego Novillo
2004-08-31 20:04   ` Tom Tromey

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