[boost] Re: Singleton Review: GCC compiler errors

From: Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) (SeeWebsiteForEmail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-07 11:04:59

Pavel Vozenilek wrote:
> "Jason Hise" wrote:
> 
> 
>>In many cases I am getting the warning that specific classes have virtual 
>>functions, but non virtual destructors.  This is intentional, because they 
>>only have virtual functions in debug mode (pure virtual, to make the 
>>singleton uncreatable by client code) and will never be destroyed through 
>>a pointer to base.  I wanted to avoid the overhead of a vtable in release 
>>mode.  Is there a way to disable this specific warning while compiling 
>>with gcc?
>>
> 
> No, there's no way to disable this or that warning using pragma
> in GCC (though I read somewhere they will finally add such feature).
> 
> Perhaps you may use a kludge with conditional macros.

Wouldn't making the destructor virtual in debug mode serve as a 
satisfactory solution?

Andrei