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In article <FREDR.92Oct9171859@mynah.bu.edu> fredr@raven.bu.edu (Fred Richardson) writes:
>I think I've found a bug which occurs when virtual functions are
>overriden and called by the construction routine.  It looks like if a
>virtual function is over riden by a derived class and it is called in the
>base classes constructor then only the base classes implementation of the
>virtual function will be called.  But this only happens in the base classes
>constructor routine.

This is standard behavior.  If you have another compiler that does
something different, that other compiler is broken.  The reason that
derived class functions are not executed from the base constructor is
that none of the derived class's fields have been initialized yet;
conceptually, the object is still a Base, not a Derived.  Similarly,
in the baseclass destructor, the object is treated as if it belonged
to the derived class and not the base class.

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