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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: deleting objects with virtual bases
Message-ID: <9890@alice.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 00:08:04 GMT
References: <1984@hcr.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <1984@hcr.UUCP>, stan@hcr.UUCP (Stan Jarzabek) writes:

> Is it legal to delete an object with a virtual base through base pointer?

Sure, as long as the base class has a virtual destructor.
That's true whether the base class is virtual or not --
if class D is derived from B and you use a B* to delete a
D object, then B must have a virtual destructor.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com