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Question:  Why we use Virtual Destructor?



January 01, 2006 21:07:36 #1
 Nitin Gupta   Member Since: Visitor    Total Comments: N/A 
RE: Why we use Virtual Destructor?
 
virtual destructor is used, so that while deleting the pointer to a base class but pointing to a base class invokes the Derived classes destructor first, then the base classes destrcutore. Hence preventing a memory leak.
     

 

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