No-RTTI build after Boost.TypeIndex?

[jpetso]

I was wondering if, after switching to Boost.TypeIndex, it would be possible to enable builds without RTTI as per http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/doc/html/boost_typeindex/getting_started.html. The build check in config.hpp is still there, is it feasible to make it build without RTTI and what kind of work would that involve?

[Lastique]

Basically, I didn't have the time to test if it works with type info emulation. The check is still there because of that and because I will probably have to reflect that configuration option in the library namespace, if I'm going to offer it.

If you want to try it out you can remove the check and build Boost with RTTI off or configure Boost.TypeIndex to use type info emulation (define BOOST_TYPE_INDEX_FORCE_NO_RTTI_COMPATIBILITY). You will have to use the same configuration when building your code as well. Let me know if you find any problems.

[Lastique]

After examining the code more closely, RTTI is still required because the implementation uses dynamic_cast in a few places.