Re: [Boost-users] boost::shared_ptr and casting operation

Michael Bradley Jr wrote:

Hi,

can someone please provide me an elegant way to solve the current problem.

class A; class B : public A;

boost::shared_ptr<A> pA; boost::shared_ptr<B> pB;

Would like to cast pB to pA with a construct like the *static_cast* but that ain't really pretty !

It implicitly casts except on some backward compilers, where it can fail. See the boost::shared_ptr documentation under the introduction, 6th paragraph.