Question

I have a conversion like this:

Class1 *p1;
Class2 *p2 = new Class2();
p1 = (Class1 *) p2;

Can I override the typecast operator above to return a custom Class1 object pointer?
If yes how?

EDIT: My exact problem is that I have code like this:

if (*$1 == ArrayType(AnyType()))
{
    $$ = ((ArrayType *) $1)->getElementsType();
}

Operator == is overloaded so $1 may be of type AnyType *.

Answer 1

No, you cannot overload conversion operators of non-class types.

What is the actual problem you want to solve? You might want to consider providing conversion operators in the actual classes.