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| author | Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> | 2010-07-28 00:28:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> | 2010-07-28 00:28:59 -0400 |
| commit | aa9610a56ff18edd0703a3f391c90e1f8a761476 (patch) | |
| tree | 5fceef5b811ffcb28bcea093b59604b94a2a89c1 /docs/C++CASTING | |
| parent | 4700c9626861b193798b3cf3d53fb89a913c5819 (diff) | |
| parent | a2573a2c3067343ebf46292691671ba4bad855a8 (diff) | |
Merge branch '1.9' of ssh://anope.git.sf.net/gitroot/anope/anope into 1.9
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diff --git a/docs/C++CASTING b/docs/C++CASTING index 5a121a5d1..bae24a24c 100644 --- a/docs/C++CASTING +++ b/docs/C++CASTING @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ This is safer than C-style casting in that an invalid pointer conversion will return a NULL pointer, and an invalid reference conversion will throw a Bad_cast exception. +Note that in Anope we prefer if Anope::debug_cast is used. +This uses dynamic_cast (and checks for a NULL pointer return) on debug builds +and static_cast on release builds, to speed up the program beacuse of dynamic_cast's +reliance on RTTI. + reinterpret_cast ---------------- |