Re: Something like a final method
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marcel_M=FCller?= wrote:
class Interface
{public:
virtual int GetStatus() = 0;
};
class AbstractBase : public Interface
{private:
int Status;
public:
virtual int GetStatus() { return Status; } // Never overridden
};
If I call GetStatus() through a pointer to AbstractBase (or any derived
class) the call cannot be inlined because it is a virtual function. Of
course, there is no other way when using a pointer to Interface. But
there are many calls via pointers to AbstractBase or some of the derived
classes. I would like to avoid these function calls since almost any
method of derived classes do it and the implementation of GetStatus is
really trivial.
Is there any better solution than renaming the method of Interface to
GetStatusByInterface() or something like that?
Use a forwarding function:
class Base {
public:
void f() { vf(); } // forward to virtual version
protected:
virtual void vf() = 0;
};
class Derived : public Base {
protected:
virtual void vf();
};
class Final : public Derived {
public:
void f() { Final::vf(); } // bypass virtual call
protected:
virtual void vf();
};
void user( Base& b, Derived& d, Final& f )
{
b.f(); // dynamic call to vf
d.f(); // dynamic call to vf
f.f(); // static call to Final::vf
}
Note how it's fine if you pass a Final via a Base&; you'll get a virtual
call. This is one instance where hiding a (non-virtual) base class
function isn't problematic.
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