Subj : Re: type of void*
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "MarvinAvery" <marvin.avery@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>
Date : Mon Nov 24 2003 09:48 am


"Thomas Maeder [TeamB]" <maeder@glue.ch> wrote in message
news:m24qwxmpb4.fsf@madbox2.local...
> "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.

I was afraid of that.
Thanks anyway.


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Marvin Avery
marvin.avery@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca

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