How does the compiler implement a virtual destructor?

[ilovecpp]

it's a little bit comlicated to me.

 

[mlimber]

it's a little bit comlicated to me.

It's similar to an ordinary virtual function. See these FAQs:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/virtual-functions.html#faq-20.3
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/virtual-functions.html#faq-20.4

Cheers! --M

 

[Victor Bazarov]

it's a little bit comlicated to me.

It implements it just like any other virtual function (and how that is
done is unspecified by the language itself). In all implementations I
have encountered, it was done through a table of virtual function, and
a pointer to that table was stored in every object.

If you'd like to know more, read "Inside the C++ Object Model" by Stan
Lippman.

V