Re: [Cppunit-devel] config.h changes committed

[Baptiste L. <bl...@cl...>]

> 3.  Is it useful to have CPPUNIT_USE_TYPEINFO as well as
> CPPUNIT_HAVE_RTTI?  Certainly you can't define the former without the
> latter.  Would you ever WANT to disable using RTTI, if available?  If
> not, then we can eliminate USE_TYPEINFO in favour of HAVE_RTTI.  If
> disabling it _is_ deemed useful, then the same comment about the extra
> symbol applies; the stanza can be simplified to
>
> #ifndef CPPUNIT_USE_TYPEINFO
> #define CPPUNIT_USE_TYPEINFO 1
> #endif
    HAVE_RTTI say that you can do dynamic_cast<...>, USE_TYPEINFO say that
typeinfo.name() returns a "human readable" name that can be used to identify
test case.

   When you want maximum portability, you want to disable both.

  Baptiste.
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