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Re: typeid strangeness

To: Ross Smith <ross dot s at ihug dot co dot nz>
Subject: Re: typeid strangeness
From: Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico dot ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:32:09 -0500
CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <3B54E701.7030307@sympatico.ca> <3B54E442.2FE9EEE8@ihug.co.nz>

Ross Smith wrote:

> Did you forget to make _add_ref() virtual? If it's non-virtual, then the
> this pointer will have the static type of the caller (i.e. always
> ServantBase) instead of the dynamic type.

no, the method in question is virtual. In fact, I found out that passing
'*this' instead of 'this' to typeid() works, so I use that now. Still, I
can't believe the behavior for pointer types is correct.

Regards,
		Stefan

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