Why was std::bit_cast added, if reinterpret_cast could do the same?
Well, there is one obvious reason: because it wouldn’t do everything that bit_cast does. Even in the C++20 world where we can allocate memory at compile time, reinterpret_cast is forbidden in constexpr functions. One of the explicit goals of bit_cast is to be able to do these sorts of things at compile-time: Furthermore, it is … Read more