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   Pete Becker to All   
   Re: Is destructor automatically be virtu   
   25 Aug 11 15:54:53   
   
   From: pete@versatilecoding.com   
      
   On 2011-08-25 12:32:23 +0000, Daniel Krügler said:   
      
   > On 2011-08-25 01:44, linq936 wrote:   
   >   
   >> class Base {   
   >> public:   
   >> virtual void do_sth() = 0;   
   >> };   
   >>   
   >> class D {   
   >> public:   
   >> virtual void do_sth() {}   
   >>   
   >> ... some other things ...   
   >> };   
   >>   
   >> int main()   
   >> {   
   >> Base* p = new D();   
   >> p->do_sth();   
   >> delete p;   
   >> return 0;   
   >> }   
   >>   
   >> We write above sort of code a lot, if the destructor generated by   
   >> compiler is not virtual, there will be memory leak.   
   >>   
   >> Can you confirm?   
   >   
   > I can confirm that you might have a memory leak, if you rely on that   
   > assumption ;-)   
      
   You also might have many other things. The behavior of the program is   
   undefined.   
      
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