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11.13.2005 at 12:20PM PST, ID: 21629289
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Dynamic type casting?

Asked by dankennedy in C++ Programming Language

Tags: dynamic, type, casting

Is it possible to dynamically type cast a pointer to some object type?

I want a function something like this...

int ReturnSomething(LPVOID myPointer, SOME_TYPE_HERE) {
  int intReturn;
  intReturn = ((SOME_TYPE_HERE *)myPointer)->Something;
  return(intReturn);
}

The SOME_TYPE_HERE part should be dynamic so that I can pass in one or more types. All the types will be structures and will contain a "Something" element.  I have seen things mentioned about dynamic type casting, but I don't know if that's what I want to solve this problem.

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