Re: use of vtbl

"Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr@soliton.integrable-solutions.net>
10 Aug 2002 01:59:38 -0400

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From: "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr@soliton.integrable-solutions.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Aug 2002 01:59:38 -0400
Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
References: 01-08-021 02-08-018
Keywords: C++
Posted-Date: 10 Aug 2002 01:59:38 EDT

"Cristian Zoicas" <zoicasc@hotmail.com> writes:


| [I gather that the C++ standards committee came very close to defining
| the structure of a vtbl, so portable code could mess with them.


That is unfortunately untrue.


The C++ standards committee don't even say anything thing about the
layout of a non-POD class.


There is a C++ ABI defined the Itanium platform


      http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/


by some C++ compilers vendors -- not the C++ standards committee --
but it is not part of standard C++ definition.


| I suspect you'll find that no matter which compiler you use, the
| vtbls are all about the same. -John


That is untrue. Take for example g++ from GCC-2.95.x and GCC-3.x
series.


-- Gaby


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