Re: [Boost-users] Pointer containers and raw arrays of pointers

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:38:13 +0200, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

Well, it's ugly, but you can do something along

reinterpret_cast( &*output.begin().base() )

Thanks for the reply. Is this guaranteed to work (at least in the case of ptr_vector)? I recall seeing a comment you made in the context of a discussion about the defunct ptr_begin(), etc. family of functions that there was no reliable, portable cast from void* to T* and that the pointer containers were now using void* storage. If you know that a T* went into a given void*, I've always figured that reinterpret_cast would get it back out again. Am I missing something? -Chris