How can I get the vtable pointer or name?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Mike Sharov wrote:
> I would like to get a pointer to the vtable of a class (C++) without
> actually instantiating the class, for the purpose of calling a virtual
> function. The idea is to have a virtual static member. Is there any way
> to do this under gcc? Any ugly and unportable hack is fine as long as I
> don't have to actually create the vtable's mangled name by hand.

What is a virtual static member? I.e., how do you know which one to call 
without an object instance?

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