Re: [Stlport-devel] RTTI

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I don't know for exceptions but I am sure that has_facet/use_facet do 
not need it.

I already built and run unit test with the --no-rtti configure option 
with success but unit tests are far from covering all use cases.

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, François Dumont wrote:
>   
>>     I would be interested to know what Standard feature is hard to
>> implement without rtti. The only reason I have created the --no-rtti
>> configure option is to make library generation more flexible. If one day
>> I have time to support the bjam build system, it is the kind of option
>> this tool also offer.
>>     
>
> I think that RTTI and the functionality to find the right catch handler for a 
> thrown exception partially overlap. Some compilers thus can't properly 
> support exceptions without RTTI, but that is not guaranteed. Other than that, 
> I am not aware of any part of the standardlibrary using RTTI. The only part I 
> would check is is has_facet/use_facet, I'm not 100% sure if those don't use 
> dynamic_cast.
>
> Uli
>
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