[C++ basics] Five lesser known special cast operations

If you’re already familiar with casting to inaccessible base, disambiguation casts, casting to most derived object, casting to/from first member of a POD, and accessing the built-in address operator via a cast, then this blog entry is perhaps not for you. 🙂 It’s basics, but for some reason even seasoned C++ programmers are not always aware of all these special cast operations. This is about special case semantics, not syntax or general operations.

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