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Subject: Re: inline virtual members
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Date: 26 Apr 89 06:20:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu's message of 21 Apr 89 18:55:34 GMT


No, you can inline virtual function calls, but only when you definitly
know the type.

e.g, assume virtual member foo::bar

	foo a;
	foo *b;

	a.bar()	-- you can inline this
	b -> bar() -- but not this, unless flow analysis shows that it can
		only be a ``foo''.
--
Dirk Grunwald
Univ. of Illinois
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu