On 10 May 2017 at 20:51, Chris Vine <vine35792...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't have any recommended reading I am afraid. The ability to use C > casts to cast from derived to private base is required by these words > in ยง5.4/4 of C++14, in describing the behaviour of C casts: "The same > semantic restrictions and behaviors apply, with the exception that in > performing a static_cast in the following situations the conversion is > valid even if the base class is inaccessible" . > > Therefore, C casts can cast as if by static_cast to inaccessible types > even where static_cast cannot. >
No worries, a Standard reference is a good enough jumping-off point! I'll be sure to start reading that just when I want to go to sleep. :) Definitely sounds like another corner of the C/C++ maze that I didn't know about yet. Thanks.
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