Chapter 23. Inheritance in Detail

This chapter formalizes and details some of the concepts introduced earlier in Chapter 6. We explain how constructors, destructors, and copy assignment operators are generated and used by derived classes. We discuss how the keywords public, private, and protected can be used for base classes as well as class members. We also provide examples of multiple inheritance.

23.1

Virtual Pointers and Virtual Tables

524

23.2

Polymorphism and virtual Destructors

526

23.3

Multiple Inheritance

528

23.4

public, protected, and private Derivation

536

Virtual Pointers and Virtual Tables

Each class that contains methods (virtual functions) has a virtual jump table, or vtable, which is generated as part of the “lightweight” C++ execution environment. ...

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