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		twoodfin on Aug 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICPP – Run C++ anywhere like a script The first pointer-sized chunk of the string structure is a pointer to the C-string representation. So the cast works as written.

fluoridation on Aug 8, 2024 [–]

Well, no, because (const char *)str is nonsense, if str is an std::string.

twoodfin on Aug 9, 2024 | [–]

Not to the debugger. If the first 8 bytes of the object referenced by str is a char* the debugger is perfectly capable of using it that way.

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