I am trying to find the most derived object class in the constructor of one of the classes in my inheritance tree. I have spent several hours on it now and do not understand how else I can do it or why it does not make sense. It seems to make sense, but he refuses to work. I found many pages about RTTI and got mostly nowhere with them. I will continue the explanation after my test case and its output.
Source:
#include <iostream>
#include <typeinfo>
#include <string>
class A
{
public:
A(std::string foo);
virtual void bar(A* a) = 0;
};
class B : public A
{
public:
B();
virtual void bar(A* a);
};
A::A(std::string foo)
{
std::cout << "type as passed to A constructor: " << foo << " (" << this << ")" << std::endl;
std::cout << "type as determined in A constructor: " << typeid(*this).name() << " (" << this << ")" << std::endl;
}
B::B() : A(typeid(*this).name())
{
A* a = (A*)this;
std::cout << "type as determined in B constructor: " << typeid(*a).name() << " (" << this << ")" << std::endl;
this->bar(this);
}
void B::bar(A* a)
{
std::cout << "type as determined in bar: " << typeid(*a).name() << " (" << a << ")" << std::endl;
}
int main()
{
B b;
b.bar(&b);
return 0;
}
Output (on g ++):
type as passed to A constructor: 1B (0x7fff5fbff910)
type as determined in A constructor: 1A (0x7fff5fbff910)
type as determined in B constructor: 1B (0x7fff5fbff910)
type as determined in bar: 1B (0x7fff5fbff910)
type as determined in bar: 1B (0x7fff5fbff910)
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