Re: Frasncis Glassboro wrote.
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On 01/07/2011 02:06 PM, Paul wrote:
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jan 7, 2:07 pm, "Paul" <pchris...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
"James Kanze" <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I can understand the concept you express but
a) how do you get the address of a member function?
&ClassName::functionName
Concretely:
struct C { void f(); };
void (C::*pf)() = &C::f;
b) what happens if this member function is virtual?
It works correctly. That's why pointer to member functions are
often larger than any other pointer types (but there are other
ways of solving the problem).
What would your pointer point to ?
That's the compiler writers problem, not mine:-).
It certainly is a problem for the compiler, and perhaps the program too.
Especially if you didn't initialised the empty pointer.
Let me put it another way, where would you get the address for the
virtual function?
You cannot do this with virtual functions and you are wrong
to suggest it works correctly.
It does work, and I've done it. More than once.
It simply can't be done as the concept of virtual functions only lives
in the world of objects.
Please show some basic code. I guarantee you cannot.
#include <iostream>
class C1 {
public:
virtual void f() {
std::cout << "C1::f" << std::endl;
}
};
class C2 : public C1 {
public:
virtual void f() {
std::cout << "C2::f" << std::endl;
}
};
int main () {
void (C1::*p)() = &C1::f; //create a pointer to a member function
C1 a; //create a object of type C1
C1 * b; //create a object of type pointer to C1
b = new C2(); //allocate a object of type C2
(a.*p)(); //call the member function pointed to
//by p, with &a as this
(b->*p)(); //call the member function pointed to
//by p (virtually), with b as this
return 0;
}
This code prints the following.
C1::f
C2::f
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