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Chapter 92. Avoid using reinterpret_cast > Summary
Summary
Lies have short legs (German and Romanian proverb): Don’t try to use reinterpret_cast to force the compiler to reinterpret the bits of an object of one type as being the bits of an object of a different type. That’s the opposite of maintaining type safety, and reinterpret_cast isn’t even guaranteed to do that or anything else in particular.
