> You can work around this by using union's of pointers of both non-const > and const types, but the reinterpret_cast solution would be more attractive. > > Thoughts?
This has nothing to do with const vs non-const but rather a<int> and a<const int> are two seperate types which are not related in any way. The C++ standard defines these two types as seperate types and are not compatiable in any way for aliasing. -- Pinski
