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I'm not calling a virtual function from my constructor or destructor, but I'm still getting a __purecall error

August 30, 2012 Aug 30, 2012 08/30/12

Raymond Chen

Some time ago, I described what is for: It's to detect the cases where you call a virtual method with no implementation (a so-called pure virtual method). This can happen during object constructor or destruction, since those are times when you can validly have a partially-implemented object. Well, there's another case this can happen: If ...