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Re: Using typeinfo functions to determine RTTI
- To: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- Subject: Re: Using typeinfo functions to determine RTTI
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: 03 May 2000 01:34:36 -0500
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005020923450.14281-100000@propylaea.anduin.com>
> 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.