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

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

Dominique Devienne wrote:

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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?

I think you want static_pointer_cast. http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm#static_pointer_cast

Thank you both Nat and Steven. I was unaware that shared_ptr had equivalents to the standard casts. Makes perfect sense now. Thanks again, --DD