Re: questions about dynamic binding

From:
"Paolo Maldini" <jifang1218@msn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 12 May 2007 18:33:31 +0800
Message-ID:
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// bp points to the object b, even if it is a pointer of class A.
A* bp = &b;

// so the member function B::f should be invoked.
bp->f();

// bp2 points to a object of class A.
A* bp2 = new A(*bp);

// so the member function A::f should be invoked.
bp2->f();

about the statement A* bp2 = new A(*bp);
if class A hasn't any copy constructor, the compiler will use the default
copy constructor to construct a new object.
A::A( const A& a),
because class B derives from class A, so the compiler will use A's part of
the object B to construct the object of class A.

if you write a overload copy constructor for class A, such as
A::A( const B& b),
the compiler will use your custom copy constructor to create the object of
class A.

It says "no matching function for call to 'B::B(A&)'". Can't compiler
find out *bp is in fact a B object?

yes, the error is reported at compile time, the dynamic binding is at run
time. so the compiler could not know whether a pointer points to its actual
object at compile time.

"Jess" <wdfcj@hotmail.com>
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Hello,

I have some questions to do with dynamic binding. The example program
is:

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

class A{
public:
 virtual void f(){cout << "A::f()" << endl;}
};

class B:public A{
public:
 void f(){cout << "B::f()" << endl;}
};

int main(){
 B b;
 A* bp = &b;
// A* bp2 = new B(*bp);
 A* bp2 = new A(*bp);
 bp2->f();
 bp->f();
 return 0;
}

As I expected "bp->f()" calls B's f(). However, "bp2->f()" calls A's
f(). Is it because of the "new A", which only copies the A's part of
"*bp" object, or is it because of the behaviour of the synthesized
copy constructor of A? If it is the latter, then can I create a B
object by defining my own copy constructor for A?

In addition, the statement that is commented out produced compiler
error. It says "no matching function for call to 'B::B(A&)'". Can't
compiler find out *bp is in fact a B object?

Thanks,
Jess

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