On Dec 8, 11:08 am, Abhishek Padmanabh <abhishek.padman...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Dec 8, 10:38 am, Rahul <sam_...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> > I was working with Run Time Type Information and with typeid
> > operator, and so on i tried to create an object of type_info class and
> > i'm not able to do so, because of the class design,
>
> > class type_info {
> > public:
> > _CRTIMP virtual ~type_info();
> > _CRTIMP int operator==(const type_info& rhs) const;
> > _CRTIMP int operator!=(const type_info& rhs) const;
> > _CRTIMP int before(const type_info& rhs) const;
> > _CRTIMP const char* name() const;
> > _CRTIMP const char* raw_name() const;
> > private:
> > void *_m_data;
> > char _m_d_name[1];
> > type_info(const type_info& rhs);
> > type_info& operator=(const type_info& rhs);
>
> > };
>
> > the constructor and assignment operator is private, why is it so?
>
> > Thanks in advance!!!
>
> I believe it so closely coupled with usage of typeid operator and the
> specific implementation (by the compiler) that you would not normally
> be able to do anything meaninful with it, even if you could create an
> object of type_info. The only way to get a type_info object is by
> usage of typeid().
>
> It would be interesting to know, why you want to create an object of
> it?

Nothing really specific, Was just playing around it and i wonder why
the copy constructor isn't private...