[cfe-dev] GCC-specific, Clang-specific and ObjC-specific casts in C++

Fariborz Jahanian fjahanian at apple.com
Sat Jul 25 10:19:28 PDT 2009


On Jul 25, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:

>
> 4) Are there formalized Objective-C semantics? Which casts are  
> allowed,
> which are disallowed? Which are implicit, and which, in Objective-C++,
> should be allowed by static_cast and reinterpret_cast respectively?

There is no spec. for Objective-C++ when it comes to c++ specific type- 
casting
syntax. We are pretty much at the mercy of underlying implementation  
in g++.
But as our C++ side of the story progresses, we may want to think   
about this and
spec. out what the rules should be.

- Fariborz

>
> 5) Did I forget anything?
>
> Sebastian
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