Can a pointer of a derived class be type cast to the pointer of its base class?

Question

The pointer of derived class returned by new can be type cast to the pointer of its base class.

Is this true or false?

I know dynamic_cast can be used to cas

Answer 1

Casting a pointer to a derived to a pointer to base should be implicit. This is the whole point of polymorphism: An instance of a derived class should always be safely usable as an instance of the base class. Therefore, no explicit cast is necessary.