Re: [boost] [variant] RTTI

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-29 03:33:32

Benoit wrote:
> 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.
> 

Oh? Well if that's that case that is good news indeed however it is at 
least not entirely true.

variant.hpp line 18 reads:

#include <typeinfo> // for typeid, std::type_info

And there appears to be a reflect class that uses typeid and std::type_info.

The platform doesn't have these.

Thanks,

Michael Marcin