hello all,

      The RTTI names generated by gcc for classes in anonymous namespaces
begin with the prefix asterisk(*).
      Once the __name pointer is different why do we not return
immediately? Instead we perform a string comparison if the name does not
begin with asterisk(*).
      Could you please explain the reasoning behind this.

      code snippet below:

   type_info::operator==(const type_info& __arg) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
  {
      if (std::__is_constant_evaluated())
         return this == &__arg;

      if (__name == __arg.__name)
         return true;

      #if !__GXX_TYPEINFO_EQUALITY_INLINE
         // ABI requires comparisons to be non-inline.
         return __equal(__arg);
     #elif !__GXX_MERGED_TYPEINFO_NAMES
         // Need to do string comparison.
         return __name[0] != '*' && __builtin_strcmp (__name, __arg.name())
== 0;
      #else
         return false;
      #endif
     }

     Code link: typeinfo - gcc-mirror/gcc - Sourcegraph
<https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/-/blob/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/typeinfo?L205>


regards,
Varun