Subj : Re: type of void*
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
Date : Fri Nov 21 2003 09:36 pm

"MarvinAvery" <marvin.avery@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca> writes:

>     void  MyFunc (void* object);
>     class MyClass;
>
> In the function, MyFunc, is there a way of testing if "object" points to an
> instance of MyClass? I tried
>     down_cast<MyClass>(object)
> and got a compile time error. I tried typeid but that didn't work either. In
> fact, is there any way of finding out what "object" does point to?

No.

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