Re: type/member tags (was Re: asking an object for its type)

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1991 01:54

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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     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "Most of my code is written by myself.  That is why so little gets done."
                 -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin

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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
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Subject: Re: type/member tags (was Re: asking an object for its type)
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Date: 9 Mar 91 01:54:44 GMT
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