Re: [boost] Is there any interest in a library that provides cont ainers with virtual destructors?

From: Martin Bonner (martin.bonner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-27 03:00:26

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From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. [mailto:vawjr_at_[hidden]]
Sent: 27 October 2005 03:55
To: boost_at_[hidden]; boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Is there any interest in a library that provides
containers with virtual destructors? 

> [deleted]
> 
>>>> 
>>>> are you suggesting that if it were   class people: public
>>>> std::vector<person> {.....};  as above the same would be true?
>>>> not "in practice", "in theory".
>>> 
>>> Absolutely.  See 5.3.5/1 of the standard where this is explicitly
>>> called out as undefined behaviour.
> 
> 5.3.5/1 looks like this in my copy of the standard
[snip]
> 
> perhaps some other paragraph?  this doesn't address anything about
> derived objects.

D'oh!  As others have pointed out, I meant 5.3.5/3.  Sorry about that :-(

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