(This should have been on the gcc-help list.) > I may be remembering wrong, but -- doesn't dynamic_cast look for a vtable?
It uses a vtable if one is present, it can't cause one to be introduced, so ... >So if you do a dynamic cast mentioning that class you'd get such a reference. No. > Or is that an error when applied to a non-polymorphic class? You can use dynamic_cast to upcast (i.e. from derived to base) for non-polymorphic class types. It is an error to downcast (from base to derived) for a non-polymorphic class type.
