/*
 *  triedatum.cc
 *
 *  This file is part of NEST.
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2004 The NEST Initiative
 *
 *  NEST is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  NEST is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with NEST.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 */

#include "triedatum.h"
#include "interpret.h"

sli::pool TrieDatum::memory(sizeof(TrieDatum),1024,1);

bool TrieDatum::equals(Datum const *dat) const
{
        // The following construct works around the problem, that
        // a direct dynamic_cast<const GenericDatum<D,slt> * > does not seem
        // to work.
    
    const TrieDatum
        *fd=dynamic_cast<TrieDatum * >(const_cast< Datum *>(dat));
    
    return  (fd == NULL)? false : (tree == fd->tree);
    
}