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From: mball@cod.NOSC.MIL (Michael S. Ball)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: destructors, derived classes, and pointers
Message-ID: <1285@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 30 Oct 88 18:13:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: cod.1285
References: <16219@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: mball@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Michael S. Ball)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <16219@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
>The problem is that all the managing procedure has is a pointer to the
>object (of the base type naturally).  Now I would expect that a delete call
>on this pointer would detect the correct destructor to invoke before it
>actually disposed of the memory, but NOOO!  It calls ONLY the parent type
>destructor!!!  So much for nice neat cleanup...
>
Make your destructor virtual and all will work as you wish......

Mike Ball
TauMetric Corporation
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