Re: call base class function or derived class function
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Abhishek,
I also did experiment and the result is not the same as yours. There is a
purecall entry, but I am not sure whether it is for the pure virtual
method
for abstract base class.
Here are the content of vtable for base class in constructor and my code.
I
also read your content of vtable, but confused. Could you post your code
here
please?
__purecall is well-explained above by Igor. As a further reading, though not
really needed, you may refer the following:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/28/122037.aspx.
My content is different and I haven't given out the details of the v-table
as it is a snapshot "after" the object creation. You would not find a
__purecall entry after the construction completes and before the destruction
starts (they will exist with abstract class' v-tables but the object's
v-table pointers would not point to those v-tables). The __purecall entry is
for pure virtuals only. A way to confirm this would be to remove the
pure-ness of the virtual function from the base class or adding more pure
ones. There would be as any __purecall entries as would be pure virtual
functions for the class.
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