dnl Available from the GNU Autoconf Macro Archive at: dnl http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/ac_cxx_dynamic_cast.html dnl AC_DEFUN([AC_CXX_DYNAMIC_CAST], [AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether the compiler supports dynamic_cast<>, ac_cv_cxx_dynamic_cast, [AC_LANG_SAVE AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include class Base { public : Base () {} virtual void f () = 0;}; class Derived : public Base { public : Derived () {} virtual void f () {} };],[ Derived d; Base& b=d; return dynamic_cast(&b) ? 0 : 1;], ac_cv_cxx_dynamic_cast=yes, ac_cv_cxx_dynamic_cast=no) AC_LANG_RESTORE ]) if test "$ac_cv_cxx_dynamic_cast" = yes; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DYNAMIC_CAST,,[define if the compiler supports dynamic_cast<>]) fi ])