On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 09:30:32 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
On 11.08.2013 06:25, JS wrote:
Given an object, is there a built in way to get the size of
the class
the object represents? The object may be instantiated with a
derived
instance of the object type, so using classInstanceSize
doesn't work on
the type of the object.
I can obviously go through the trouble of adding a class
member and
override it in all the derived classes. I saw tsize in object
but 2.063
says it doesn't exist.
There is no general way to do this at compile time in any
language.
Is this a mathematical fact that you have proven for all
languages? I'd like to see your proof if it's not bigger than
what will fit in a post.
