[boost] Re: Is there any way to get typeid() to return the derivedclass name?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-01 00:47:54

The serialization system has a class - extended_type_info which does exactly
this.  You might not like the way it does it - but there it is.

Robert Ramey

Chris Just wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been looking through the boost library and I haven't been able
> to find anything that works like typeid() that returns the exact
> (i.e. derived) class name instead of just the base class.
>
> I want to compare two derived classes to make sure that they are of
> the same class, but typeid() only returns the name of the base class.
>
> If there is a boost function that does this, or if someone has a way
> of doing it could you please point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>    Chris Just
>
>
>
>
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