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From: jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: virtual destructors
Message-ID: <1520017@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 90 16:18:48 GMT
References: <45.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>
Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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> We have a problem which seems to require virtual destructors.
> Is such a thing valid in C++? 

Certainly.  Didn't you even try

	class X {
		//...

	public:
		virtual ~X();
	};

It won't (oops, it shouldn't, but probably will :-) break your compiler.