DRAFT document on coding conventions in kde libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Michael Pyne wrote:
>On Monday 06 March 2006 07:22, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> When you try to cast "ptr" to "Derived", it'll use yet another
>> "typeinfo for Derived". Since they aren't the same object, the cast
>> will always fail.
>>
>> Also note that static_cast<> will work.
>
>This problem has occurred in lots of actual KDE code when we first
> started porting to support gcc 3.4's visibility feature.  It caused
> some crashes in JuK and KMail at least.

Hopefully, all those issues have been ironed out by now.
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