Re: Correct vesion (Re: Clone an object with an abstract base class)

From:
JiiPee <no@notvalid.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:05:20 +0100
Message-ID:
<CcC%v.728797$Fy6.483359@fx25.am4>
On 12/10/2014 01:18, Mr Flibble wrote:

On 12/10/2014 00:55, JiiPee wrote:

On 12/10/2014 00:26, JiiPee wrote:

How about checking the type of the *b object first and creating that
type of object:

void f2(B *b) {
    B *b1 = nullptr;
    if( typeid(*b).name() == typeid(D1).name() )
        b1 = new D1(*b1); // *b is type D1
    else if( typeid(*b).name() == typeid(D2).name() )
        b1 = new D2(*b1); // *b is type D2
}

and maybe also *b1 must be converted to its type like:
new D1( *((D1*)b1) )
?


this is better and compiles:

void f2(B *b) {
     B *b1 = nullptr;
     if( typeid(*b).name() == typeid(D1).name() )
         b1 = new D1(*(reinterpret_cast<D1*>(b1)));
     else if( typeid(*b).name() == typeid(D2).name() )
         b1 = new D2(*(reinterpret_cast<D2*>(b1)));
}


You should use static_cast not reinterpret_cast when casting from base
to derived.

/Flibble


why not dynamic_cast? It would check if the conversion is valid, static
cast does not.

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