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Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Richard Ward <richard dot j dot ward1 at googlemail dot com>
Cc: archer at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:12:37 -0600
Subject: Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
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Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Ward <richard.j.ward1@googlemail.com> writes:

Richard> I have a patch I've been meaning to submit for a while, it adds
Richard> gdb.Value.rtti_type which returns the run time type of an object (as a
Richard> gdb.Type) using similar code to `set print object on'. The object can
Richard> then be cast using gdb.Value.cast.

Sounds useful.  I'm not sure about the method name, but this is exactly
what I was picturing.

Tom

References:
- How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
  - From: Matthieu VIAL
- Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
  - From: Matthieu VIAL
- Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
  - From: Richard Ward

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