Hi Aseem, > Class C doesn' t have virtual functions BUT has a virtual destructor. A virtual destructor fulfills the requirement for the class to have a virtual function table, so that there is a place (off the virtual function table) to hold the object's type information. And, hence, that the class is a polymorphic class, which is required to use the dynamic_cast. > Can you point me to some literature which explains as to why > dynamic_cast requires virtual functions ? p409 (section 15.4.1) in Stroustrup's C++ programming Language (Special edition) mentions the requirement that the pointer's type be polymorphic. Sincerely, --Eljay
