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Re: typeinfo question

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
Cc: Garrett Kajmowicz <gkajmowi at tbaytel dot net>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:26:12 -0700
Subject: Re: typeinfo question
Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
References: <200407240052.27345.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net> <20040724052517.GA14285@disaster.jaj.com>

Phil Edwards wrote:

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:52:27AM -0400, Garrett Kajmowicz wrote:

How much of the functionality of typeinfo is provided by the compiler and how much is provided by the stdc++ library?

Up to you. The C++ standard makes no requirements on who does it.

But in G++, the compiler puts out a bunch of data structures; the runtime contains all the implementations of the functions that are actually called.

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  - From: Garrett Kajmowicz
- Re: typeinfo question
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