Incorrect char extraction code

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Rosen, Hyman wrote:
> 
> These are clearly wrong; the result of a static_cast<char> is not an
> lvalue, so code that tries an extraction into a signed or unsigned char
> shouldn't even compile. Those casts need to be reinterpret_cast<char &>,
> and then you need to verify that you won't run afoul of gcc's alias
> detection.

Since __c is a reference, why not static_cast<char&>(__c) instead?  Then it
would be an lvalue, and we don't have to resort to reinterpret_cast.

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