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I'm currently working on integrating a third-party package that uses lots of RTTI stuff on a non-RTTI platform (Android). Basically, I did my own RTTI implementation but I'm stuck on a problem. The issue is that a lot of classes are having the diamond inheritance problem since all the classes derive from the same base class (object).. and so, if I want to downcast from the base class to the derived class, I have to use a dynamic_cast - but RTTI is not available! How do I convert an object from parent to child when there are virtual inheritance without dynamic_cast? It looks like that: class A { public: virtual char* func() { return "A"; }; }; class B : public virtual A { public: //virtual char* func() { return "B"; }; }; class C : public virtual A { public: //virtual char* func() { return "C"; }; }; class D : public B, public C { public: //virtual char* func() { return "D"; }; }; D d; A* pa = static_cast<A*>(&d); D* pd = static_cast<D*>(pa); // can't do that! dynamic_cast does work though... Those are my errors: error C2635: cannot convert a 'A*' to a 'D*'; conversion from a virtual base class is implied error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'test_convert::A *' to 'test_convert::D *' Cast from base to derived requires dynamic_cast or static_cast Any ideas?

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