On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:03 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Paul Davis dies 13/11/2006 hora 08:44: > > > I think this is worth looking into ... I am not sure how this is > > > done by the (gnu) C++ compiler. > > its part of the language definition. > > Are you sure? I remember reading that the use of a vtable is only the > easiest and most common way to achieve the kind of polymorphism we find > in C++, and the only one used by C++ compilers, but that it's not in the > C++ standard...
well, sure, the details of the implementation are compiler-specific. but the idea that adding more virtual functions doesn't increase the size of an instance of an object is pretty obvious, i think. that was the part i meant by "part of the language". _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
