Getting “source type is not polymorphic” when trying to use dynamic_cast

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You need to make A polymorphic, which you can do by adding a virtual destructor or any virtual function:

struct A {
  virtual ~A() = default;
};

or, before C++11,

struct A {
  virtual ~A() {}
};

Note that a polymorphic type should have a virtual destructor anyway, if you intend to safely call delete on instances of a derived type via a pointer to the base.

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