Why doesn't this reinterpret_cast compile?

Question

I understand that reinterpret_cast is dangerous, I\'m just doing this to test it. I have the following code:

int x = 0;
double y = reinterpret_c         


        

Answer 1

That's interesting. Maybe it's doing an implicit conversion from int to float before it attempts the cast to double. int and float types tend to be the same size in bytes (depending on your system of course).