Re: Is this code from sourcemaking.com bugged?

From:

"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:23:05 +0200

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<gvsbni$tc$1@news.eternal-september.org>

* pauldepstein@att.net:

I was a bit surprised to see this on sourcemaking.com because it
generally appears excellent. My opinion is that this code is faulty
because the destructor has not been made virtual in the base class
Stooge. Am I correct, or is there some reason a non-virtual
destructor is ok?

Thanks a lot,

Paul Epstein

Code is pasted below:

class Stooge
{
  public:
    // Factory Method
    static Stooge *make_stooge(int choice);
    virtual void slap_stick() = 0;
};

int main()
{
  vector<Stooge*> roles;
  int choice;
  while (true)
  {
    cout << "Larry(1) Moe(2) Curly(3) Go(0): ";
    cin >> choice;
    if (choice == 0)
      break;
    roles.push_back(Stooge::make_stooge(choice));
  }
  for (int i = 0; i < roles.size(); i++)
    roles[i]->slap_stick();
  for (int i = 0; i < roles.size(); i++)
    delete roles[i];
}

class Larry: public Stooge
{
  public:
    void slap_stick()
    {
        cout << "Larry: poke eyes\n";
    }
};
class Moe: public Stooge
{
  public:
    void slap_stick()
    {
        cout << "Moe: slap head\n";
    }
};
class Curly: public Stooge
{
  public:
    void slap_stick()
    {
        cout << "Curly: suffer abuse\n";
    }
};

Stooge *Stooge::make_stooge(int choice)
{
  if (choice == 1)
    return new Larry;
  else if (choice == 2)
    return new Moe;
  else
    return new Curly;
}

UB.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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