Casting Dynasty

Although malloc without casting is preferred method and most experienced programmers choose it, you should use whichever you like having aware of the issues. Jun 24, 2011is there a possibility that casting a double created via math.round() will still result in a truncated down number no, round() will always round your double to the correct value, and then, it. Mar 15, 2011casting can be used to clearly state that you are calling a child method and not a parent method.

Aug 26, 2008static cast is also used to cast pointers to related types, for example casting void* to the appropriate type. Avoiding casting is a best-practice, but sometimes a programmer has gotta do what a programmer has got to do. May 28, 2024i'm willing to bet it has nothing to do with casting and everything to do with boxing.

Jul 29, 2025casting to void* removes all type safety.