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[Bug c++/25826] "pure virtual" destructors accepted by GCC, but cause link failure
- From: "gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 17 Jan 2006 22:00:17 -0000
- Subject: [Bug c++/25826] "pure virtual" destructors accepted by GCC, but cause link failure
- References: <bug-25826-6477@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Comment #7 from gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu 2006-01-17 22:00 -------
Subject: Re: "pure virtual" destructors accepted by GCC, but cause link
failure
"lloyd at randombit dot net" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
| I'm now not quite sure what purpose a pure virtual destructor has,
the usefulness used to be subject of debate when OO was "the" main
topic. Some people believe it is a concise way for them to state that
a given base class for a hierarchy is abstract.
-- Gaby
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