[C++-sig] Re: Interest in luabind

[Daniel Wallin]

> "Daniel Wallin" <dalwan01 at student.umu.se> writes:
>
> >> Again I can only offer a second-hand view. IIUC, on
> some platforms
> >> it is possible to compare type_info objects across dll
> boundaries as
> >> if they are in the same static link unit. I.e. there is
> nothing
> >> special. On some platforms this is not possible, and
> type_id::name
> >> is used instead.  There is only one platform where
> relying on
> >> type_id::name caused a bit of a hick-up, namely
> IRIX/MIPSpro. See
> >> the comment near the top of the flew_fwd.h file (link
> in my previous
> >> message).
> >
> > Ok. I guess you could unmangle the names to a
> standardized format if
> > there are problems with this?
>
> No :(
>
> Sadly, the problem is that typedefs don't always get
> fully-unwound in
> type_info names, e.g.:

Oh, ok. So you would need to unwound the types manually with
specialization.

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Daniel Wallin