Created on 2009-07-15.00:00:00 last changed 25 months ago
Rationale (June, 2021):
EWG resolved to close this issue. The bit_cast function addresses some of the use-cases. Supporting other use-cases would need a paper. See vote.
Rationale (May, 2015):
CWG agreed that this question should be considered from a language design perspective and is thus being referred to EWG.
Additional note, April, 2015:
It has been suggested that this question may more properly be the province of EWG, especially in light of discussions during the resolution of issue 330.
During the discussion of issue 799, which specified the result of using reinterpret_cast to convert an operand to its own type, it was observed that it is probably reasonable to allow reinterpret_cast between any two types that have the same size and alignment.
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-11-20 07:54:16 | admin | set | messages: + msg7060 |
| 2022-04-28 11:28:07 | admin | set | status: extension -> nad |
| 2015-05-25 00:00:00 | admin | set | messages: + msg5967 |
| 2015-05-25 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: open -> extension |
| 2015-04-13 00:00:00 | admin | set | messages: + msg5319 |
| 2009-07-15 00:00:00 | admin | create | |