On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Robert Ramey
Emil Dotchevski wrote:
On Windows, the standard library goes to great lengths to make std::type_info objects that identify the same type from different DLLs compare equal. This could lead to problems in case the DLLs have different version of the type, but it doesn't mean that the use is invalid when all DLLs have identical copies of the type. <snip> In my view, including the same code in different DLLS is a symptom of poor code organization.
Nevertheless, it is valid code organization and the standard library's type_info implementation and exception handling implementation has specific support for it. I think that Boost libraries should support it as well.
So my view is to trap it (at least in debug builds) and permit the user to override the trap if he is willing to be responsable for the consequences.
Oh, I am sorry I didn't understand that there is a way for the assert to be avoided -- nevermind then! Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode