[cxx-abi-dev] IA-64 C++ ABI key function question

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de (Martin v. Löwis) writes:

| For the specific issue, I recommend that a quality implementation
| issues a warning that a virtual function should not be defined inline,
| since it usually can't be invoked inline, anyway.

Certainly, existing compilers out there can inline virtual functions.

In particular, when the dynamic type matches the static type -- that
appears frequently in some applications.

What about

   struct A {
     virtual ~A();
   };

   struct B : A { 
    // ~B defined inline by the compiler
   };

-- Gaby