Re: Isn't this a polymorphic call?

From:
Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 28 May 2008 14:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<4c049fd9-2882-4642-86cc-139b64561945@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On May 29, 2:14 am, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Arindam wrote:

#include <cstdio>

struct Test {
void bar() {
foo();
}
private:
virtual void foo() {
printf("Test\n");
}
};

struct Test2 : public Test {
void foo() {
printf("Test2\n");
}
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
Test2 v;
v.bar();
}

Does the call to v.bar() amount to a polymorphic invocation of foo()?


Have you tried it? If you have, what happened? If not, why not?


Yes - it prints Test2. So this should be polymorphic right?

If not, I am guessing the following will be polymorphic:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
Test2 v;
Test * pv = &v;
pv->bar();
}

bar takes a _this_ pointer whose static type is Test*. Therefore I am
reasoning that v.bar is something like:

bar(Test* this) being invoked as:

Test2 v;
bar(&v);

But inside bar, the static type of _this_ is really Test*. But
invoking foo() on it will resolve to Test2::foo. So both should be
polymorphic. Ami I correct?


I think so.


The same result here.

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