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   Pete Becker to Mathias Gaunard   
   Re: Can an arbitrary continuous sequence   
   29 Oct 11 01:17:39   
   
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   From: pete@versatilecoding.com   
      
   On 2011-10-28 16:46:00 +0000, Mathias Gaunard said:   
      
   >   
   > 1) I think static_casting a void* to a different pointer type than the   
   > one it originally was is undefined behaviour. Therefore you should use   
   > reinterpret_cast instead, which is only implementation-defined.   
      
   Well, maybe, if the implementation documents that it does what you want   
   it to do. But in the absence of documentation, relying on   
   reinterpret_cast is just guessing.   
      
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