Re: Odd error with g++

On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 03:56 in article
<1137815810.067010.214930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> of
comp.os.linux.development.apps, elitecodex wrote:

[snip]
> What is a vtable? What does this mean?

It holds pointers to virtual methods for each class in an inheritance
hierarchy.

> Basically, I have a object JobFile and a object JobFileReader that
> inherits it. I am trying to instaniate a JobFileReader class for
> testing.

Did you declare a method virtual in the descendant class but not declare
it virtual in the parent class?

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