Question w.r.t. `'class Foo' has virtual functions but non-virtualdestructor` warning.
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Mon Mar 7 06:00:00 GMT 2005
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
[...]
| > It seems that the warning could be improved to be emitted when the
| > *delete* is seen of a class without a virtual dtor (but that does
| > have virtual methods). If you never actually do the questionable
| > behavior, you'd never get the warning. It seems like a bug to emit
| > it for the class definition.
|
| Age-old debate: better to warn early about possibly broken interfaces,
| or late about definitely broken usage? I think that warning early,
| together with what DJ is calling fine-grained warning control is the
| best solution.
When that is a nuisance, I don't see how it is best solution.
-- Gaby
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