From c935a9dbc11e5ac0bf8c23052d5cd473a0a8bcd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Philipp=20M=C3=B6ller?=
 <Philipp.Moeller@geometryfactory.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:05:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed a crash when calling type() on an uninitialized Object

---
 STL_Extension/include/CGAL/Object.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/STL_Extension/include/CGAL/Object.h b/STL_Extension/include/CGAL/Object.h
index dd88a8f577f..6cbf9de49d1 100644
--- a/STL_Extension/include/CGAL/Object.h
+++ b/STL_Extension/include/CGAL/Object.h
@@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ class Object
 
     const std::type_info & type() const
     {
-      return obj->type();
+      if(obj)
+        return obj->type();
+      else
+        return typeid(void);
     }
 
 #ifndef CGAL_NO_DEPRECATED_CODE