Re: casting a void* into 2 base classes

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:58:23 -0400
Message-ID:
<u4CLe#10GHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
hswerdfe <hswerdfe@example.com> wrote:

I tried passing in the the type_info
of the base class
CWrap* = myWrapper = new CWrap(myBase1 , typeid(myBase1));

and storing the type_info in a member function
class CWrap
{
    type_info& m_typeInfo;
}

But from my documentation, and compile errors (VC++6)
it looks like the copy constructor for type_info and assigment
operator are both declared private.


Since you are storing a reference to type_info and not a copy, you
shouldn't need copy constructor nor assignment operator. Make sure
CWrap's constructor also takes a type_info& reference.

For the record, you appear to be reinventing boost::any :
http://boost.org/doc/html/any.html
You may also want to look at boost::variant :
http://boost.org/doc/html/variant.html
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