Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!bbn.com!papaya.bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Implementing inheritance Keywords: C++ inheritance implementation description Message-ID: <3398@litchi.bbn.com> Date: 18 Mar 91 14:18:30 GMT References: <1991Mar14.233914.14777@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1885@news.tcs.com> Distribution: all Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc. Lines: 10 In <1885@news.tcs.com> gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu) writes: > I expect any good C++ book would contain a description of how C++ >compilers implement inheritance. How many C books describe the compiler's implementation of typedef? I wish I never had to learn anything about virtual function tables. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to learn C++ these days without knowing them. -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.