Implementing isInstanceOf(...) in c, any ideas

[dwaach]

Hi,

I am thinking about implementing isInstanceOf() in c.
Any ideas ???

Ex.

int findType(struct x)
{
struct X orgX;
if (isInstanceOf(x, orgX))
return 1;
else
return 0;
}

main()
{
struct Y x;
int val=0;
val=findType(x);
}

Regards,
Abhishek

[Protoman]

dwaach wrote:

Hi,

I am thinking about implementing isInstanceOf() in c.
Any ideas ???

Ex.

int findType(struct x)
{
struct X orgX;
if (isInstanceOf(x, orgX))
return 1;
else
return 0;
}

main()
{
struct Y x;
int val=0;
val=findType(x);
}

Regards,
Abhishek

Well, there's always RTTI...

[Kufa]

I am thinking about implementing isInstanceOf() in c.

Any ideas ???

Post in comp.lang.c instead of c++ ? :)

[Ivan Vecerina]

"dwaach" <xb**************@gmail.comwrote in message
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: I am thinking about implementing isInstanceOf() in c.
: Any ideas ???
C has no built-in concept of classes or instances,
so the answer would depend on how you choose to emulate
that feature.
In C++, dynamic_cast can be used to find if an object
is of a given subclass. You could write isInstanceOf
as follows:
template<class D, class B>
bool isInstanceOf(const B& b)
{ return !! dynamic_cast<const D*>(&b); }

Usage example (using <fstream>):

bool isFileOutput(std::ostream& o)
{
return isInstanceOf<std::ofstream>(o);
}

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