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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Matthieu VIAL <matthieu.vial@orange-ftgroup.com>
Cc: archer@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How to cast a pointer to a base class with multiple inheritance
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eirskaxl.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249291199.3046.15.camel@pc1134.silicomp.fr> (Matthieu VIAL's message of "Mon\, 03 Aug 2009 11\:19\:59 +0200")

>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu VIAL <matthieu.vial@orange-ftgroup.com> writes:

Matthieu> Sorry Value.cast seems to work but my problem is actually a bit more
Matthieu> complex.

Ok.

Matthieu> I need to compare pointers to the interface with pointers to
Matthieu> the base class. But these classes are not directly related so
Matthieu> Value.cast is useless. The solution is to up cast the base
Matthieu> class pointer to the final class and then down cast to the
Matthieu> interface. But i need run time type information for that. The
Matthieu> typeid operator doesn't seem to be available in archer.

Nope.  The Python API just exposes things that already exist in gdb.
typeid is not implemented yet, there's a bug for it:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9065


However, gdb does have "set print object on"... if this prints the right
thing for you, I think we could hook up the internal code to find the
"real object" as a Value method.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-03 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  7:21 Matthieu VIAL
2009-07-31 18:03 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-03  9:20   ` Matthieu VIAL
2009-08-03 18:30     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-08-04  8:42       ` Richard Ward
2009-08-04 11:40         ` Matthieu VIAL
2009-08-10 21:12         ` Tom Tromey

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