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Alex Vinokur · Guest

Here is some program in which static_cast is (wrongly) used instead of dynamic_cast.

Is output of the program undefined or predicted?

=========== C++ code : foo.cpp : BEGIN ===========
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

struct B
{
virtual void foo1 () { cout << "B::foo1" << endl; }
virtual void foo2 () { cout << "B::foo2" << endl; }
};
struct D1 : public B
{
void foo1 () { cout << "D1::foo1" << endl; }
};
struct D2 : public B
{
void foo2 () { cout << "D2::foo2" << endl; }
};

int main ()
{
B* pB = new D1;
// --------------------------
// Of course, here we should use dynamic_cast
D2* pD2 = static_cast // --------------------------

pD2->foo1();
pD2->foo2();

return 0;
}

=========== C++ code : foo.cpp : END =============

=========== Compilation & Run : BEGIN =============

$ g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 3.3.3 (cygwin special)
[---omitted---]

$ g++ -W -Wall foo.cpp
// No errors, no warnings

$ a
D1::foo1
B::foo2

=========== Compilation & Run : END ===============

Alf P. Steinbach · Guest

* Alex Vinokur: