Re: [inti] entry fun

Jeff Franks wrote:

> As far as I'm aware, dynamic casting is always required when 
> upcasting/downcasting if multiple inheritance is used.

Hmm, downcasting is the only case where the compiler don't have the 
propper type info. to ensure the validity of the cast, but I quess it 
will not do any harm, but runtime overhead :-)

> This is because with multiple inheritance objects have several 
> addresses. Using a dynamic cast ensures that pointer returned actually 
> does point to the beginning of the multiplely inherited base object's 
> memory.

Yeps, and in the case of upcasting, it will ensure it double, no harme 
done :-)

/BL



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