On 9 May 2012 20:10, klperez wrote: > > Hello Mattia, I am glad your question was sort of answered. Given his answer > it seems to me that gcc breaks the rules of polymorphism, because it does > not allow multiple inherited objects to be treated like their base class. No, GCC doesn't break anything. A Final "is a " Base. But an array of FInal is not an array of Base. > Clearly one should not have Final objects be stored in a dynamically > allocated array of base classes, but is there a way to store them in a > different way without leaking memory? Yes, of course: Final* p = new Final[2]; delete[] p; > For example could one use a std > vector, which stores three Final objects, and then calls clear when it comes > time to delete them? Yes, of course.
