[vtk-developers] Dashboard

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Dec 17 11:13:58 EST 2001


> Sorry, this was my problem.  I thought I had checked this on our SGI
> compiler before checking it in, but I apparently didn't.  Now fixed.  
> This also valid:
> 
> (VTK_TT) 0
> 
> rather than reinterpret_cast<VTK_TT*>
Actually, that is not valid.  If you want a C-style cast, it should be

(VTK_TT*) 0

However, C-style casts are deprecated in C++, and should not be used in
new code. Since it is valid to create a NULL pointer to any type, the best
solution is actually

static_cast<VTK_TT*>(0)

-Brad




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