RE: [Dev-C++] About member functions

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jansb000 [mailto:jan...@wx...] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 12:45 AM
> To: Ioannis Vranos
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] About member functions
> 
> 
> I think what they mean by this is that if you use a pointer 
> to a member-function, the actuall function that you point to 
> is resolved at run-time, since, probably due to overloading 
> or inheritance, the exact target can not be resolved during 
> compile time.
> 
> The member functions are already available and they appear 
> only once in memory. However if you use overloeding, then 
> what appears to be the same function is actually several 
> times in memory. For example all your classes may contain an 
> overloaded operator=(); This may result in many different 
> versions of this function. But each variant of this function 
> is in the program only once.


Well a pointer pointing to a specific overloaded member function will
point at the certain function, ignoring the other ones. I hope we are
telling the same thing.


Ioannis

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