You'd think the first thing someone would do is grep for all typecasts. hmm One thing you can do to make your typecasts easier to find, assuming you're using C

You'd think the first thing someone would do is grep for all typecasts. hmm One thing you can do to make your typecasts easier to find, assuming you're using C++, is using static_cast. I know it's ugly, but searching for static_cast is much easier than all possible ways you can write a typecast.