And now I notice that all my uses of static_cast are either with reference or pointer types or for primitive type conversions, but never in a manner that invoke

And now I notice that all my uses of static_cast are either with reference or pointer types or for primitive type conversions, but never in a manner that invokes a class's copy constructor. I didn't realize that C-style casting would behave like static_cast, doing pointer offsets and null checks, if that was available. I had believed it was always reinterpret_cast for pointers.