Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: type/member tags (was Re: asking an object for its type) Message-ID: <27D84065.E87@tct.uucp> Date: 9 Mar 91 01:54:44 GMT References: <70877@microsoft.UUCP> <10721@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 11 According to beard@ux5 (Patrick C Beard): >The information about what class an object is can be easily obtained by using >the pointer to the object's virtual function table as the class id, which >will always be unique for every class. Current implementations of C++ may have more than one copy of the virtual function table for any given class. Sorry. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "Most of my code is written by myself. That is why so little gets done." -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin