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Re: Using typeinfo functions to determine RTTI



> Sorry i've been inactive, i've been bogged down by finals the past two
> weeks. I've got a boat load of patches for C++ to commit to the trunk.

Sheesh.  Get your priorities straight.

> Does anyone mind if i use the typeinfo functio name, rather than the
> virtual table name, to figure out th real type of an object? It only
> matters if someone does -fno-rtti, i believe. But I have no idea how many
> people actually use that flag to save time/space in debugging
> executables.

Almost all of Cygnus's customers use GDB to debug embedded apps, and
space is often an issue there.  But I don't actually know how many of
them use -fno-rtti.

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