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As a result of problems I'm having with C++ program execution, I need to
examine what the C++ standard says with respect to virtual destructors.  I
understand these are a special case of virtualness and there are special 
rules associated with how compilers are to support them.

Does C++ require you to declare your destructor virtual whenever you declare
any other member function in the class to be virtual?

Is it acceptable according to the standard for the destructor to be the only
virtual member in the class?

Is virtualness inherited by destructors?  Does C++ automatically make all 
applicable superclasses also have virtual destructor if they don't already?

If virtualness of destructors is inherited, then what is supposed to happen to
in the case where one of our subclasses uses multiple inheritance and one 
of the other trees leading to the subclass doesn't declare destructors to be 
virtual anywhere?

If anyone has any knowledge regarding what the C++ standard says about virtual
destructors, I'd appreciate it if you could answer any of the questions that
you can.  I have all these situations occuring in a program I wrote, and I 
don't understand why it is behaving as it is and the answers to those questions

would explain a lot of things for me.  Thanks for any input you can provide.

							Chris Parker
							parker@cs.WPI.EDU
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