Re: use of vtbl

"Lieven Marchand" <mal@wyrd.be>
10 Aug 2002 01:59:59 -0400

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From: "Lieven Marchand" <mal@wyrd.be>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Aug 2002 01:59:59 -0400
Organization: Only under extreme pressure
References: 01-08-021 02-08-018
Keywords: C++
Posted-Date: 10 Aug 2002 01:59:59 EDT

"Cristian Zoicas" <zoicasc@hotmail.com> writes:


> [I gather that the C++ standards committee came very close to defining
> the structure of a vtbl, so portable code could mess with them. I
> suspect you'll find that no matter which compiler you use, the vtbls are
> all about the same. -John]


There are a number of different strategies possible. You not only need
a table of function pointers, you also need to find the subobject the
function is refering too. In some implementations this is done by
keeping a table of offsets in the vtbl, in others it's done by letting
the function in the table be a trampoline that adjusts the this
pointer before jumping to the real function. I don't recall the
standards committee ever talking about an API into these things.


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Bored, now.
Lieven Marchand <mal@wyrd.be>

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