http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49171
--- Comment #4 from Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler at googlemail dot com> 2012-10-03 16:22:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Daniel, what's the status of this issue? Is there some consensus that GCC is > actually Ok, we don't really want to reject reinterpret_casts? My opinion is that gcc should start to implement the new core rules in regard to reinterpret_cast *except* for cases that are well-defined. > Because I would find very useful a constexpr std::addressof. For the time > being > we could certainly have it constexpr anyway and change the implementation > details when/if the C++ front-end starts rejecting reintepret_casts, but I > would rather not. Exactly this usage of reinterpret_cast seems IMO to be well granted by the standard - at least by the way I read it.
