http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/11/16/void-and-casts-in-c-and-c/ Eli Bendersky's personal website Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/11/16/void-and-casts-in-c-and-c/comment-page-1/#comment-227007 Jed Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:58:48 +0000 http://eli.thegreenplace.net/?p=1985#comment-227007 Multiple inheritance is the reason C++ cannot support casting from `<code>void*</code>` to an arbitrary type. The pointer to the second superclass will actually have a different address. Relevant discussion here: http://www.mail-archive.com/dolfin-dev@fenics.org/msg11124.html Multiple inheritance is the reason C++ cannot support casting from void* to an arbitrary type. The pointer to the second superclass will actually have a different address. Relevant discussion here: http://www.mail-archive.com/dolfin-dev@fenics.org/msg11124.html

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