Unique class type Id that is safe and holds across library boundaries

Question

I would appreciate any help as C++ is not my primary language.

I have a template class that is derived in multiple libraries. I am trying to figure out a way to uniq

Answer 1

In my previous company we did this by creating a macro which would take the class name as a parameter, create a local static with the unique id (based on class name) and then create an override of a virtual function declared in the base class that returned the static member. That way you can get the ID at runtime from any instance of the object hierarchy, similar to the 'getClass()' method in a java object, though much more primitive.