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[Matthias Kretz]

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:53, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> > The cast is a noop (reinterpret_cast) and therefore not a price payed in
> > performance.
>
> I wonder if a static_cast would not be enought.

AFAIK a static_cast won't work because the compiler doesn't know anything 
about the Private class when looking at the header file only. Try for 
yourself: change the cast in src/corelib/global/qglobal.h to a static_cast 
and compile QtCore... you won't get far.

-- 
C'ya
        Matthias
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