C++ Madness: File I/O with "char"

[wswartzendruber]

libogg is giving me "unsigned char*" buffers that I need to send to an ofstream.

PROBLEM: <ofstream> takes char*, not unsigned char*.

Can I just use reinterpret_cast<char*> on these things? That seems like a really, really bad idea.

EDIT: How the hell does a signed char map to the extended ASCII table, anyway?

EDIT: Who the fuck thought of this?!

[Hu]

Why are you sending it to an ofstream? You probably want to write the data through unmodified, so use write. File streams take char* because they are mostly used with printable text and historically, printable text was char* and more recently const char*.

[046]

libogg is giving me "unsigned char*" buffers that I need to send to an ofstream.
PROBLEM: <ofstream> takes char*, not unsigned char*.
Can I just use reinterpret_cast<char*> on these things? That seems like a really, really bad idea.

Use cast, it is ok really.