From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca>
To: Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: typeid strangeness
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:34:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B54F529.7020006@sympatico.ca>
References: <3B54E701.7030307@sympatico.ca> <3B54E442.2FE9EEE8@ihug.co.nz>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01243.html

Ross Smith wrote:


> Did you forget to make _add_ref() virtual? If it's non-virtual, then the
> this pointer will have the static type of the caller (i.e. always
> ServantBase) instead of the dynamic type.


no, the method in question is virtual. In fact, I found out that passing
'*this' instead of 'this' to typeid() works, so I use that now. Still, I
can't believe the behavior for pointer types is correct.

Regards,
		Stefan