Are you sure your destructor is declared virual in CSomeClass
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 12:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: destructors
>> 2)Destructors don't seem to work at all.
>
>I think you may have some options turned off in the compiler or so: I use
>both of these features and they work quite well.
FWIW, I had problems getting destructors to be called as well. The problem
is that if you create a subclass, but then call delete when the type is the
superclass, the base class destructor gets called, not the destructor of
the actual object.
ie
CSomeClass *anObject;
anObject = new CSubClass
delete anObject // calls CSomeClass delete, not CSubClass
delete
This is bad if you make a base class (say CChore), and then want to delete
a derived instance (say CDoSomethingChore) in a generic way.
Brian
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