dnl Available from the GNU Autoconf Macro Archive at: dnl http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/ac_cxx_reinterpret_cast.html dnl AC_DEFUN([AC_CXX_REINTERPRET_CAST], [AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether the compiler supports reinterpret_cast<>, ac_cv_cxx_reinterpret_cast, [AC_LANG_SAVE AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include class Base { public : Base () {} virtual void f () = 0;}; class Derived : public Base { public : Derived () {} virtual void f () {} }; class Unrelated { public : Unrelated () {} }; int g (Unrelated&) { return 0; }],[ Derived d;Base& b=d;Unrelated& e=reinterpret_cast(b);return g(e);], ac_cv_cxx_reinterpret_cast=yes, ac_cv_cxx_reinterpret_cast=no) AC_LANG_RESTORE ]) if test "$ac_cv_cxx_reinterpret_cast" = yes; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_REINTERPRET_CAST,, [define if the compiler supports reinterpret_cast<>]) fi ])