BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CSL-TR-90-418
       ENTRY:: November 08, 1994
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
       TITLE:: Runtime Access to Type Information in C++
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Interrante, John A.
      AUTHOR:: Linton, Mark A.
        DATE:: March 1990
       PAGES:: 10
    ABSTRACT:: The C++ language currently does not provide a mechanism for
               an object to determine its type at runtime. We propose the
               Dossier class as a standard interface for accessing type
               information from within a C++ program. We have implemented a
               tool called mkdossier that automatically generates type
               information in a form that can be compiled and linked with an
               application. In the prototype implementation, a class must
               have a virtual function to access an object's dossier given
               the object. We propose this access be provided implicitly by
               the language through a predefined member in all classes.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19941108]
         END:: STAN//CSL-TR-90-418