Re: OON: Barton & Nackman Trick

From: Michael Soliman (msoliman@intera.de)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 05:16:14 EST


Moin Moin.
> Hi,
> someone knows if the Barton & Nackman Trick works fine in SGI
MIPS
Ok (i.e. I know the solution. By the way this is some of the coolest
Templatestuff I have seen till now.).
> Pro compiler?.
>
> I'm tryin to compile the next code:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> template<class T_mesh>
> class Mesh {
> public:
> Mesh() {
> Dimension = asLeaf().getDimension();
> cout << " Mesh: Dimension = " <<
Dimension << endl; }
>
> ~Mesh() {}
>
> T_mesh& asLeaf() { return static_cast<T_mesh&>
(*this); }
My question being: Should this be a reinterpret_cast or not, and, if so,
why.

          Tschuess,
               Michael.

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