On Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:36 pm, Mark Spieth wrote: > maybe you can put in a #define > #if GCC3 > #define STATIC_CAST(x) static_cast<x> > #else > #define STATIC_CAST(x) (x) > #endif > best of both worlds. Ugly, and not worth the effort, IMO. static_cast<> isn't really that much safer than a c-style cast. Isaac