Casting angst (makes me feel like a newbie)

[solosnake]

Hello guys,

Can anyone tell me a safe, nice way to cast between an integral type and a pointer to an object? And vice-versa? I want to use std C++.

eg class CMyThing { ..... };

int main()
{
CMyThing *pObj;

float f;

pObj = some_cast<????>( f );
}

Please dont comment on the why's of this type of operation. I HAVE to do it to work with my current projects legacy code. Its not my fault,honest But I would like to rewrite the old casts that were there to use the correct relevant casts. I had understood reinterpret_cast<> to allow casting arbitrarily, but three compilers I have tried refused to cast a float to a class pointer.

Thanks for all help.

- solosnake