• Dario (9/9) Oct 18 2003 How can I find the size of a class?
• Sean L. Palmer (11/16) Oct 18 2003 Can't you do "Object.size" ?
• Walter (7/16) Oct 19 2003 for
• Dario (2/5) Oct 20 2003 Thanks!

"Dario" <supdar yahoo.com> writes:

How can I find the size of a class?
"Object o; return o.size;" doesn't work. It returns the size of the
reference.
A '.length' field in ClassInfo would be useful (or a '.length' property for
classes).

I need this because I would like to write a function which returns a byte[]
which contains the contents of the class.
We'd have to decide if that variable should include the classinfo pointer
and the "monitor" (what is this "monitor" exactly?).

"Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> writes:

Can't you do "Object.size" ?

That's the problem with references. IMO they should act as if they actually
*are* the object they refer to, in all respects except assignment.  I would
expect your example "Object o; return o.size;" to return the same thing as
"return Object.size;"

There are a whole bunch of things that would be nice to have in the
ClassInfo...

Sean

"Dario" <supdar yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bmrc5d$16c3$2 digitaldaemon.com...
 How can I find the size of a class?
 "Object o; return o.size;" doesn't work. It returns the size of the
 reference.
 A '.length' field in ClassInfo would be useful (or a '.length' property

for
 classes).

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Dario" <supdar yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bmrc5d$16c3$2 digitaldaemon.com...
 How can I find the size of a class?
 "Object o; return o.size;" doesn't work. It returns the size of the
 reference.
 A '.length' field in ClassInfo would be useful (or a '.length' property

for
 classes).

 I need this because I would like to write a function which returns a

byte[]
 which contains the contents of the class.
 We'd have to decide if that variable should include the classinfo pointer
 and the "monitor" (what is this "monitor" exactly?).

The size of a class can be obtained from:
    Object foo;
    foo.classinfo.init.length;

"Dario" <supdar yahoo.com> writes:

Walter:
 The size of a class can be obtained from:
     Object foo;
     foo.classinfo.init.length;

Thanks!