Re: [boost] Boost.Any and RTTI

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Antony Polukhin wrote:

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2014-07-27 1:22 GMT+04:00 Chris Glover :

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Hi,

I need a Boost.Any like facility that doesn't depend on RTTI, so I patched Boost.Any to utilize Boost.TypeIndex if BOOST_NO_RTTI is defined.

The diff is available here;

https://github.com/cdglove/any/commit/7188b13909a061495ef31f979b55f9779a9e99...

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Is there any interest in merging this into mainline? Or is someone

working

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on a more correct patch than this?

There is a set of patches allowing different Boost libraries to work without RTTI right in the repo of the TypeIndex: https://github.com/boostorg/type_index/tree/master/patched

Those patches will be applied to the 1.57 version of Boost. TypeIndex is a new library and it is better to get some notes and reviews from users, before migrating other libraries to it. That's why those patches did not make their way into Boost 1.56

If you'll find some issues in those patches, feel free to contact me or write to this mailing list. I'll appreciate any help.

-- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Chris Glover wrote:

Hi Anthony,

Thanks! I found those patches this morning and they made me realize that I didn't need to take the approach I did in my patch. I tried to keep the API the same in the case of RTTI being available, but now I see TypeIndex already provides that service.

So, I will wait until 1.57.

Thanks again,

-- chris

Sorry for the top-post - I was hasty. Re-arranged above for clarity. -- chris