On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:39:52 +0100, Bjorn.Karlsson@readsoft.com <Bjorn.Karlsson@readsoft.com> wrote:

Hello Faheem,

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From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:faheem@email.unc.edu]

It would be nice if there was some method to downcast the shared_ptr itself.

See http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm#static_pointer_cast for details on how to do just that.

Thanks. I did a search, but I think maybe I was too specific. I looked for shared_pointer_cast. Faheem.