[Bug c++/25826] "pure virtual" destructors accepted by GCC, but cause link failure

[gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu]

------- 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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