Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > We have a buggy program that keeps throwing exceptions due to a "pure 
> > virtual function call".

> Usually that means you're invoking a dynamically-bound method for which 
> there is no definition. I didn't know you could get that in C++ as the 
> first mistake the program makes.

  I think that error happens if you try to call a pure virtual function
in the initialization list of the base class constructor. (What I really
don't understand is why it isn't a compile-time error...)

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