Re: [Boost-users] Variant pointer and bool

AMDG On 12/13/2010 8:02 AM, Philipp Hamann wrote:

I have a class, call it "Property", containing a value, which can be of many different types, like int, string, bool, but also a pointer to binary data. So I decided to use boost::variant.

The problem is that when I assign a pointer to the variant, it is implicitly casted to a bool. So I do not get the pointer out of the variant again.

Is boost::variant not suitable for my needs or is there a recommended workaround?

I will post some code to make my problem more clear.

boost::variant value; void* p; value = p; bool b = boost::get<bool>(value); //OK void* p2 = boost::get(value); //Error

It works fine for me with the current trunk. What version of Boost are you using and what compiler? In Christ, Steven Watanabe