Re: Virtual function behaviour

From:
red floyd <no.spam@here.dude>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:04:33 GMT
Message-ID:
<RbAQh.13419$Um6.4646@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net>
dragoncoder wrote:

Hello experts,

I was just playing around wrote this code.

sundev1:/home/ptiwary/rnd $ cat a1.cpp
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Base
{
    public:
        virtual void foo() { cout << "In Base::foo()" << endl; bar();}
    private:
        void bar() { cout << "In Base::bar()" << endl; }
};

class Der1: public Base
{
    public:
        virtual void foo() { cout << "In Der1::foo()" << endl; bar();}
    private:
        void bar() { cout << "In Der1::bar()" << endl; }
};

class Der2: public Base
{
    public:
        virtual void foo() { cout << "In Der2::foo()" << endl; bar();}
    private:
        void bar() { cout << "In Der2::bar()" << endl; }
};

int main()
{
    Base* b1 = new Base();
    Base* b2 = new Der1();
    Base* b3 = new Der2();

    b1->foo();
    b2->foo();
    b3->foo();

    return 0;
}


Victor answered your questions, but I have another comment, relevant
because you used dynamic allocation.

You really need a virtual destructor in Base, even if it's empty, since
if you delete b1, b2, or b3, you will be doing so through a base class
pointer.

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