The Old New Thing

April 28, 2004 - The Old New Thing

What, going to Sweden *again*?

April 28, 2004 Apr 28, 2004 04/28/04
Raymond Chen
It appears that I will have an opportunity to visit Sweden during the first week of June. I'll have three days in Uppsala and three days in Lund, with a travel day in between. Now, I've already spent a week and a half in Uppsala, so perhaps I could spend the Uppsala days taking a ferry to Helsinki and back. (And I could visit Denmark ...

What is __purecall?

April 28, 2004 Apr 28, 2004 04/28/04
Raymond Chen
Both C++ and C# have the concept of virtual functions. These are functions which always invoke the most heavily derived implementation, even if called from a pointer to the base class. However, the two languages differ on the semantics of virtual functions during object construction and destruction. C# objects exist as their final type ...