kenny@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (10/23/86)
(Don asbestos suit) Is there any way in C++ to get access to the virtual function table for a particular class? I'm trying to hack up, without yaccing up a preprocessor, a ``monitor'' object that behaves like one of Hoare's monitors. The entry and exit primitives are well defined, so that if I'm willing to throw portability to the winds, I could just replace the virtual function entries with things that do: this.entry(); <call the original virtual function with the same arguments that my caller gave me> this.exit(); and for any of the machines that I'm expecting to deal with, this hook is easy enough to build. I find that marginally superior to having to remember to put entry() and exit() primitives in every member function. What I *really* want (dream on) is something analogous to the :BEFORE, :AFTER, and :AROUND specifiers in the ``flavors'' package (Smalltalk has these too, but I don't remember what they're called). (Shoot fire extinguisher and remove asbestos suit) Kevin Kenny UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!kenny Department of Computer Science ARPA: kenny@B.CS.UIUC.EDU (kenny@UIUC.ARPA) University of Illinois CSNET: kenny@UIUC.CSNET 1304 W. Springfield Ave. Urbana, Illinois, 61801 Voice: (217) 333-7980