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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free
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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:17:18 +0000
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> (X)Y copy a bit pattern.

  int a = 2;
  float f = (float) a;

I think you will get 2.0.

> reinterpret_cast <X>(Y) copies a bit pattern.

No idea what this does! sounds evil

> Unchecked_Conversion (Y) copies a bit pattern.

yes