C/C++ changing the value of a const

Question

I had an article, but I lost it. It showed and described a couple of C/C++ tricks that people should be careful. One of them interested me but now that I am trying to repli

Answer 1

You probably want to use const_cast:

int *ptr = const_cast(ptr_to_a);

I'm not 100% certain this will work though, I'm a bit rusty at C/C++ :-)

Some readup for const_cast: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz6at95h(VS.80).aspx