------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2004-12-10 21:53 ------- The fact that we don't issue any errors is a duplicate of PR 15684. However, the code is fundamentally broken in that you cast a pointer to B into a pointer to A and use it to do something with it. This violates aliasing constraints, and you shouldn't be surprised that your code does weird things. W.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18933
