Are there practical uses for dynamic-casting to void pointer?

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The dynamic_cast<void*>() can indeed be used to check for identity, even if dealing with multiple inheritance.

Try this code:

#include <iostream>

class B {
public:
    virtual ~B() {}
};

class D1 : public B {
};

class D2 : public B {
};

class DD : public D1, public D2 {
};

namespace {
    bool eq(B* b1, B* b2) {
        return b1 == b2;
    }

    bool eqdc(B* b1, B *b2) {
        return dynamic_cast<void*>(b1) == dynamic_cast<void*>(b2);
    }
};

int
main() {
    DD *dd = new DD();
    D1 *d1 = dynamic_cast<D1*>(dd);
    D2 *d2 = dynamic_cast<D2*>(dd);

    std::cout << "eq: " << eq(d1, d2) << ", eqdc: " << eqdc(d1, d2) << "\n";
    return 0;
}

Output:

eq: 0, eqdc: 1

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