Re: [C++] Inheritance chain enumeration

2009-05-08 Thread Piotr Wyderski
Dave Korn wrote:

>  To find the base classes, look at the typeinfo for the class, which will be
> abi::__class_type_info or one of its derivatives as specified in the ABI doc

It should be __si_class_type_info in my case.
Beautiful! Many thanks Dave :-)

BTW, how do you know what derivate is pointed to by a pointer during
RTTI processing, especially in the context of exception handling? Is there
a type_info for type_info, e.g. an enum?

Best regards
Piotr Wyderski


Re: [C++] Inheritance chain enumeration

2009-05-08 Thread Dave Korn
Piotr Wyderski wrote:
> Namely, where do you keep the "direct base information about
> a class type" and what data structures from libstdc++ should I
> become familiar with? And the last question: is the format
> expected to stable in terms of GCC development?

  libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/typeinfo.

  Anything defined in the ABI docs should be pretty stable.

  To find the base classes, look at the typeinfo for the class, which will be
abi::__class_type_info or one of its derivatives as specified in the ABI doc
section 2.9.5; the derived types have pointers to (one or more) base class
typeinfos.

cheers,
  DaveK