Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:31:53 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r328430 - head/sbin/devd Message-ID: <059B754A-3BBD-47F7-8DF4-B0277C1F385E@yahoo.com>
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Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org wrote on Fri Jan 26 16:56:09 UTC 2018 : > Modern compilers will warn about a class with virtual functions and no > virtual dtor, so just blindly including it is more harmful than > prophylactic these days, IMO. More reliable is to have non-virtual destructors be, say, protected instead of public when possible. The language rules then lead to issues that all the C++ compilers should report violations of if a delete via a base-class pointer is attempted in the source code. I quoted a bit on the subject from the "C++ Coding Standards" book in: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2018-January/108976.html === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( markmi at dsl-only.net is going away in 2018-Feb, late)
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