A-23 RTTI class structures (was RTTI updates)

Jim Dehnert dehnert at baalbek.engr.sgi.com
Tue Feb 15 00:31:35 UTC 2000


> From nathan at acm.org  Fri Feb 11 09:08:29 2000
> 
> Jason Merrill wrote:
> > I'm still not sure what 'has {non-,}virtual base' are good for,
> > though.  The only reason that we care about the difference between
> > virtual and non-virtual bases is because of the potential for diamond
> > shapes, right?
> Yup, you're correct. Now that the flags are only in vmi classes,
> the 'has {non-,}virtual base' flags give little/no help. (When they
> were everywhere, they could prune the tree walk looking for the
> original sub object given the src2dst hint, for some cases of dynamic
> cast.)
> 
> Kill them.

I've taken care of this...

Jim

-		Jim Dehnert  x3-4272




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