[Boost-users] shared_ptr and RTTI?

From: Foster Brereton (fosterb.boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-27 13:35:16

Hi all,

I have this request from a colleague. Can anyone help me shed some
light on his issue?:

> I did not use the boost::shared_ptr in quite some time and I was
> surprised to find out that, more recently, the shared_ptr _requires_
> RTTI to be enabled. I did some reading on the websites and groups and
> while I admit that the new version is more flexible, powerful, etc, I
> would have thought that they also left a switch in for the old behavior
> which did not require RTTI. In some projects, RTTI does not add any
> benefits and people obviously turn it off.
>
> Is anybody aware of such a "switch" that will allow somebody to use
> boost::shared_ptr without RTTI?

Blessings,
Foster

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Foster T. Brereton - Computer Scientist
Software Technology Lab, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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