C++ corner case: You can implement pure virtual functions in the base class

Raymond Chen October 11, 2013 Oct 11, 2013 10/11/13

In our discussion __purecall, we saw that you can declare a pure virtual function with the = 0 syntax, and if you try to call one of these functions from the base class, you will get the dreaded R6025 - pure virtual function call error. In that article, I wrote that a pure virtual function is "a method which is declared by the base class, ...