Re: Problem with virtual destructor
ZikO wrote:
Thanks Jeff. That's clear and should be obvious for me that without the
destructor the object can't be initiated. I can keep the destructor not
to be pure virtual. Just wanted to know why it's happened.
BTW what is the purpose of having pure virtual destructor
class A {
virtual ~A() = 0;
Any pure virtual member function makes the class "abstract," meaning
that it cannot be instantiated except by subclasses. The destructor of
such a base class usually should be declared virtual anyway, or else
deleting a derived class object through a pointer-to-base (A* a = new B;
delete a;) causes undefined behavior. A good rule of thumb is that a
class with any virtual member functions at all should have a virtual
destructor.
};
and then definition of it outside the class?
A::~A() {}
Since you've manually declared a destructor for A, the compiler will not
automatically generate one for you. If A does not have a destructor
definition, but it is instantiated (even as a subobject of some derived
class instance), the linker will freak out.
For reasons that escape me, C++ syntax doesn't allow pure virtual
function definitions in the class definition.
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