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| author | Adam <Adam@anope.org> | 2010-07-27 21:31:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Adam <Adam@anope.org> | 2010-07-27 21:31:13 -0400 |
| commit | 4b870cc5f9671201dfad6fa836847cdd40aef519 (patch) | |
| tree | 34aec3d880a22a8a828e5f5a7917e583cee92023 /docs/C++CASTING | |
| parent | 66c0e280ee9d4940fe5a477d3e933ba4221e35db (diff) | |
Added debug_cast which uses dynamic_cast on debug builds, and static_cast on release builds
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/C++CASTING | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
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 ---------------- |