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[Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 13.04.2016 18:13, Chris Pavlina wrote:

> What is the purpose of dyn_cast<> in include/core/typeinfo.h? Why don't we just
> use dynamic_cast<>? And can we either replace the former with the latter, or
> add a comment to the former explaining its purpose?

It uses the parallel type system in EDA_ITEM rather than RTTI, so it
works if RTTI is broken, e.g. when compiling with gcc 2.95.

I believe this should go.

   Simon

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