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From: rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Deleting derived classes
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Date: 14 Nov 90 04:13:51 GMT
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Matthew Donaldson writes:
> if a delete function
> is declared in the derived class, it will be used, and the one defined in
> the base class will be ignored.  Is this part of the language definition,
> or a bug in the compiler?

As previously stated, it is part of the language definition, but note
that this can be circumvented by declaring the destructor as virtual..

struct foo {
	foo();
	virtual ~foo();
};

Now you are assured that the destructors will be called properly.

					Reid

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