Re: Calling a Private function using Virtual Instance

Hi all,

please look at this code

"

class VirtualBase{

          public:
virtual int method1() = 0;
virtual int method2()=0;
virtual int method3()=0
};

class DerivedBase:public VirtualBase
{
        public:
int method1(){
return 2;
}
int method2(){
return 2;
}
       private:
int method3(){
return 2;
}
};

void main(){

DerivedBase ObjDerivedBase;
VirtualBase *ObjVirtualBase;

ObjVirtualBase = new DerivedBase;
cout<<"\nReturn:"<<ObjVirtualBase->method3();
}

"

Here..inspite of DerivedBase::method3() being private, i can still
call it using a pointer to VirtualBase after assigning a object of
DerivedBase.

I have difficulty understanding how this could be possible?