/* --- WHAT'S WRONG WITH A HARMLESS LITTLE TYPE CASTING? --- */

           /*  A Poem in C++ by Chuck Liang  */


#include<iostream.h>

class bigobject 
{ 
private: 
    int x; 
    double y; 
public: 
    bigobject() { x = 2;  y = 3.14; }
    double gety() { return y; }
}; 

int main(int argc, char **argv) 
{ 
  bigobject *A = new bigobject(); 

  int *x = (int*)A;
  double *y = (double*)((char*)A+4);  

  cout << "The \"private\" integer is " << *x << endl;
  cout << "and the not-so-private double was " << *y << endl;
  *y += 5.86;
  cout << "but what I get back now reads "  << A->gety() << endl; 
  cout << "Private? Says who?\n";
  return 0; 
}