Re: [Boost-users] [hash] Reliability of hash_value() for std::string

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Szymon Gatner wrote:

I am coding a simple serialization/factory lib and want to use class hash code based on std::string representing class name as a factory identifier.

There's another potential "gotcha" lurking here: where are you getting the class-name string? Is that manually coded, or are you deriving it from typeid(myclass).name()? The latter construct is explicitly (and empirically) NOT portable.