From kde-core-devel  Mon Nov 01 17:10:11 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 17:10:11 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KPresenter
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94147624532100

weis wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, weis wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >since cooloes last No-RTTI attack KPresenter does not compile
> > >any more. "Make clean" did not help. Somewhere are still
> > >RTTI things created and that causes linking to break :-(
> >
> > KPresenter uses dynamic_casts. SO does it mean I have to switch all back to
> > C-casts now (would be lots of work :-(( )
> 
> I do not know wether you can mix: KDE without RTTI, KPresenter with.
Applications should be able to use RTTI - it's just too nice ;)
The question how much overhead RTTI adds is still not answered,
but anyway we should use it.

Greetings, Stephan

> 
> Luckily I was never very used to C++ casts :-)

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