[omniORB] non-virtual destructors

[Stefan Seefeld]

David Riddoch wrote:

> No.  This is perfectly legal c++ code, and in my opinion the compiler
> should not issue a warning.  These objects are only ever 'delete'd through
> a pointer to the most derived type -- so we are sure to call the correct
> destructor.  The behaviour with virtual destructors is identical, but has
> a space and time cost.

did you measure this ? The space 'overhead' should be one pointer per
vtbl, i.e. per class. This isn't worth mentioning, is it ? Time overhead
depends largely how frequent these objects are destructed.

Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: seefelds@magellan.umontreal.ca

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