On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 21:05, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Your analysis is correct. However, a virtual destructor is not needed
> in the case where you never delete through the Base*. It turns out
> for our codebase that is very common (due to lots of "observer"-like
> patterns), so we decided to not rely on this compiler warning. It's
> only caused horrible bugs once or twice! :)
>
Is it worth to be more "tricky" at the expense of wasting time for
debugging? I hate it when after investigating some crazy bug it turns out to
be something that a compiler can detect.
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