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How does the compiler implement a virtual destructor?

it's a little bit comlicated to me.

Dec 16 '05 #1
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ilove...@gmail. com wrote:
it's a little bit comlicated to me.


It's similar to an ordinary virtual function. See these FAQs:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit....html#faq-20.3
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit....html#faq-20.4

Cheers! --M

Dec 16 '05 #2
il******@gmail. com wrote:
it's a little bit comlicated to me.


It implements it just like any other virtual function (and how that is
done is unspecified by the language itself). In all implementations I
have encountered, it was done through a table of virtual function, and
a pointer to that table was stored in every object.

If you'd like to know more, read "Inside the C++ Object Model" by Stan
Lippman.

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