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toxcct12-Jul-06 6:38
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Dave Schumann12-Jul-06 6:48
Dave Schumann12-Jul-06 6:48 
well you can basically "completely circumvent" protection anyway. For example:

LIBRARY:

class A
{
protected:
int value;
};

MY CODE:

//now let's say I want to access value in an 'A' object I have. I just write this:

class A_breaker: public A
{
public:
int* accessValue()
{ return &value; }
};

void my_function (A& my_a)
{
int* value_ptr = ((A_breaker&)my_a).accessValue();
//now I can do anything
}

...so if they were trying to make "protected" bulletproof, they didn't succeed at all. (I've actually compiled the above and it's perfectly legal...and, incidentally, the cast to A_breaker is perfectly safe since A_breaker adds no data)

-- modified at 13:01 Wednesday 12th July, 2006
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