Re: [boost] [variant] RTTI

From: Benoit (benoit.casoetto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-29 03:10:28

Hello

The variant library does not rely in any way on RTTI. That should
solve your problem :-)
Each variant instance stores an additional field describing the type
of the contained object.

Benoît Casoetto

2007/6/29, Michael Marcin <mmarcin_at_[hidden]>:
> I need something similar to variant to optimize dynamic dispatches in my
> application much like what GIL uses. Unfortunately one of my target
> platforms does not support RTTI.
>
> How much does variant rely on the facilities of RTTI?
>
> Is it reasonable/possible to consider replacing RTTI to remove that
> dependency? I had to add a BOOST_NO_RTTI config macro locally several
> months ago in order to use lexical_cast. Perhaps RTTI could be used
> conditionally based on something similar.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Marcin
>
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Benoît
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