Performance hit from C++ style casts?

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If the C++ style cast can be conceptualy replaced by a C-style cast there will be no overhead. If it can’t, as in the case of dynamic_cast, for which there is no C equivalent, you have to pay the cost one way or another.

As an example, the following code:

int x;
float f = 123.456;

x = (int) f;
x = static_cast<int>(f);

generates identical code for both casts with VC++ – code is:

00401041   fld         dword ptr [ebp-8]
00401044   call        __ftol (0040110c)
00401049   mov         dword ptr [ebp-4],eax

The only C++ cast that can throw is dynamic_cast when casting to a reference. To avoid this, cast to a pointer, which will return 0 if the cast fails.

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