Re: I don't get it
Jo <jo.langie@telenet.be> wrote in
news:faBdi.21838$nN5.1513633@phobos.telenet-ops.be:
John Harrison wrote:
Jo wrote:
[snip]
Perhaps you are expecting an ordinary cast to work like a
dynamic_cast? When you write
bp2=(B*)p; // resulting bp2 is WRONG!
you are expecting the program to 'discover' that there a B object
hidden inside the object that p is pointing to?
If so google for dynamic_cast, or better still read a good book.
I understand that a dynamic_cast cannot do a base-to-derived
conversion, so that's not the solution here.
No, that's exactly what dynamic_cast is for, _if_ the pointer is pointing
to an object that actually is of the derived type.
And a static_cast doesn't seem to make any difference, because i'm
already doing static casts right, just in the 'old' way.
So i'm still looking for the solution for this situation
class A {
public:
virtual long GetClassID() { return(' A'); }
};
class B {
public:
// some class data & funx
};
class C : public class A, public class B {
public:
virtual long GetClassID() { return(' C'); }
};
foo1(C *cp) {
...
foo2(cp);
...
}
foo2(A *ap) {
if (ap->GetClassID==' C') {
C *cp=(C*)ap; // IS THIS LEGAL and PORTABLE C++
?
}
}
In theory that would work... of course so would:
class A {
virtual ~A() {};
};
class B {
virtual ~B() {};
};
class C : public class A, public class B {
virtual ~C() {};
void cfn() {};
};
foo1(C *cp) {
fooA(cp);
}
fooA(A *ap) {
C * cp = dynamic_cast<C*>(ap);
if (cp != NULL) {
cp->cfn();
}
}
No "getclassid" function required. However, note that there's no mention
of B anywhere in there (other than the inheritance).... so how does B
get involved in this question?
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