Casting pointer to derived class to reference to pointer to base class

Question

Why I can\'t cast a pointer to derived class to reference to pointer to base class?

struct Base { };
struct Derived : Base { };

int main()
{
    Derived* de         


        

Answer 1

if you want a reference you need to do

Base* ptr = static_cast(derived);
Base &ref = *ptr;

you cant cast a pointer to a reference - they are quite different things