Is there a way to find out whether a class is a direct base of another class?
- by user176168
Hi I'm wondering whether there is a way to find out whether a class is a direct base of another class i.e. in boost type trait terms a is_direct_base_of function. As far as I can see boost doesn't see to support this kind of functionality which leads me to think that its impossible with the current C++ standard.
The reason I want it is to do some validation checking on two macro's that are used for a reflection system to specify that one class is derived from another e.g.
header.h:
#define BASE A
#define DERIVED B
class A {};
class B : public A
{
#include <rtti.h>
};
rtti.h:
// I want to check that the two macro's are correct with a compile time assert
Rtti<BASE, DERIVED> m_rtti;
Although the macro's seem unnecessary in this simple example in my real world scenario rtti.h is a lot more complex.
One possible avenue would be to compare the size of the this pointer with the size of a this pointer cast to the base type and some how trying to figure out whether its the size of the base class itself away or something (yeah your right I don't know how that would work either! lol)
