The c-style casts can do virtually all types of casting from normally safe casts done by static_cast () and dynamic_cast () to potentially dangerous casts like const_cast (), where const modifier can รขโ‚ฌยฆ What's the most idiomatic way in java to verify that a cast from long to int does not lose any information? This is my current implementation:

Function pointers casting in c++ asked 16 years, 6 months ago modified 1 year, 9 months ago viewed 97k times Casting can be used on any compatible types, it can be overloaded, and it will throw an exception if the operation fails. The choice of which to use depends on the circumstances.