// Copyright 2015 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved.
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//
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// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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// You may obtain a copy of the License at
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//
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// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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//
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// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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// limitations under the License.
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#ifndef CRASHPAD_UTIL_MISC_IMPLICIT_CAST_H_
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#define CRASHPAD_UTIL_MISC_IMPLICIT_CAST_H_
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namespace crashpad {
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// Use implicit_cast as a safe version of static_cast or const_cast
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// for upcasting in the type hierarchy (i.e. casting a pointer to Foo
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// to a pointer to SuperclassOfFoo or casting a pointer to Foo to
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// a const pointer to Foo).
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// When you use implicit_cast, the compiler checks that the cast is safe.
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// Such explicit implicit_casts are necessary in surprisingly many
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// situations where C++ demands an exact type match instead of an
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// argument type convertible to a target type.
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//
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// The From type can be inferred, so the preferred syntax for using
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// implicit_cast is the same as for static_cast etc.:
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//
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// implicit_cast<ToType>(expr)
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//
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// implicit_cast would have been part of the C++ standard library,
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// but the proposal was submitted too late. It will probably make
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// its way into the language in the future.
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template <typename To, typename From>
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constexpr To implicit_cast(From const& f) {
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return f;
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}
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} // namespace crashpad
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#endif // CRASHPAD_UTIL_MISC_IMPLICIT_CAST_H_
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