Re: [Boost-users] How to obtain shared_ptr<Derived> from shared_ptr<Base>?

Dominique Devienne wrote:

So long story short, is there a clean way to obtain a shared_ptr<VehiculeIdent> from a shared_ptr<Ident> which one "knows" is a VehiculeIdent, to avoid my as_shared_ptr hack above?

Use dynamic_pointer_cast: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm#functions