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Bernd Mathiske commented on MESOS-2756:
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[~jvanremoortere] You write "Disallow public construction of base classes". But
wouldn't the following narrower statement be enough? "Disallow public _copy_
constructors for base classes". If so, this would already be covered in the
style guide as it is:
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.html#Copyable_Movable_Types
See the paragraph "Decision", which says "If your base class needs to be
copyable, provide a public virtual Clone() method, and a protected copy
constructor that derived classes can use to implement it.".
> Update style guide: Avoid object slicing
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Key: MESOS-2756
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2756
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Joris Van Remoortere
> Assignee: Joris Van Remoortere
> Labels: c++
>
> In order to improve the safety of our code base, let's augment the style
> guide to:
> "Disallow public construction of base classes"
> so that we can avoid the object slicing problem. This is a good pattern to
> follow in general as it prevents subtle semantic bugs like the following:
> {code:title=ObjectSlicing.cpp|borderStyle=solid}
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <vector>
> class Base {
> public:
> Base(int _v) : v(_v) {}
> virtual int get() const { return v; }
> protected:
> int v;
> };
> class Derived : public Base {
> public:
> Derived(int _v) : Base(_v) {}
> virtual int get() const { return v + 1; }
> };
> int main() {
> Base b(5);
> Derived d(5);
> std::vector<Base> vec;
> vec.push_back(b);
> vec.push_back(d);
> for (const auto& v : vec) {
> printf("[%d]\n", v.get());
> }
> }
> {code}
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