Using typeinfo functions to determine RTTI

[Tom Tromey]

>> 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.

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

All Java programs are compiled with -fno-rtti.  This includes the C++
component.  So presumably if this change is made it will make it even
harder for me to debug libgcj.

Tom