Is there a way to define a conversion operator for any pointer type?

c++, operator-keyword, pointers

Solution

Yes, you can have a conversion function template.

template <class T>
operator T*() {
    return static_cast<T*>(view);
}

Problem

I have this class: ``` class fileUnstructuredView { private: void* view; public: operator void*() { return view; } }; ``` and it can do this: ``` void* melon = vldf::fileUnstructuredView(); ``` but it cant do that: ``` int* bambi = vldf::fileUnstructuredView(); //or int* bambi = (int*)vldf::fileUnstructuredView(); ``` instead i have to do ``` int* bambi = (int*)(void*)vldf::fileUnstructuredView(); ``` or create another explicit type conversion operator for int*. The point is, i want to easily convert the class into various pointer types including all the basic ones and some pod structure types. Is there a way to do that without creating a conversion operator for all of them? The closest thing to what I'm asking that I can think of is the ZeroMemory method that doesn't seem to have any types required for its arguments.

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