On 1 June 2015 at 18:25, ArbolOne wrote: > In the bellow sample I get an error saying : cannot convert from > 'std::shared_ptr<Parent>' to 'Child' This is not a GCC question, it's a general C++ question, so is off-topic here. Of course you can't convert shared_ptr<Parent> to Child, they are totally unrelated. You can't even convert Parent* to Child, one is a pointer and one is not. Maybe you mean static_pointer_cast<Child>(e) which converts pointer-to-Parent to pointer-to-Child.
