RTTI dynamic_cast implementation

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "allen" == allen chan <allen.chan at ca.ibm.com> writes:

    allen> Hi all,

    allen> We are in the process of implementing the RTTI proposal as
    allen> outlined in the ABI document. Is there any plan to make the
    allen> implementation of __dynamic_cast publicly available? or
    allen> must we all spend the time to implement our own version of
    allen> __dynamic_cast?

We are implementing it as well for use in g++.  That version will
*not* be under the GPL -- it will bear the following license.  Note
the last paragraph.  Only a lawyer could tell you whether this license
will allow you to use it in your system or not, I'm afraid -- I
genuinely can't parse all of the details.  It *sounds* like you could
only use this file if at least one file in the application was
compiled by g++, but I don't know that for sure.

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