Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> writes: | Hi, | | this issue dates back to 2004 and got stalled pretty soon. Essentially | Gaby wanted to see *dynamic_cast* explicitly mentioned in this kind of | diagnostic (we used to explicitly talk about static_cast), whereas | Mark found the current status an improvement over the past, proposed | some further, minor, improvements (which I tried to implement in the | below) | | Today I noticed that current ICC, clang, OracleStudio, all produce | diagnostic quite similar, modulo the latter improvements, to GCC and | decided to explore whether Gaby (and Jason) would like to reassess the | bug, whether today we want to talk about dynamic_cast. | | Tested x86_64-linux. | | Thanks, | Paolo.
I still consider talk of 'static_cast' in this context a non-starter. However, maybe just saying "convert" would be OK -- though clearly giving hints of dynamic_cast is much better. Minor nits: say "base class" instead of "base", and "derived class" instead of "derived type". Otherwise, patch OK with these suggestions. -- Gaby
