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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: member functions
Message-ID: <11260@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 14:03:59 GMT
References: <13200001@bucc2>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <13200001@bucc2> brian@bucc2.UUCP writes:
>In C++, are pointers to the member functions stored with an object???

There is an easy way to find out: run cfront over a class definition
and see what it emits.  Answer: no.

>Or are function pointers stored only for virtual member functions?

Here a single pointer is stored, to the `virtual function table'.
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