Apropos my recent questions regarding passing by reference etc the
following question comes to mind:
When a class instance is created, does this also create a copy in memory
(from the class prototype) of the member functions or only of the data
members?
Regarding static member functions I realize there is no meaning to have
an instance of the member function for each instance since the function
does not relate to an instance of the class.
But even regarding non-static functions, I don't see any meaning in
having an instance of the function for each member of the class, since
all such functions would do basically the same thing, though with their
parent instance only.
So what's the fact here? Is there any need for new copies of member
functions with each new instance of a class being created? *Are* such
new copies created by good compilers like GCC?
Thanks again for all your good and patient responses.
Shriramana Sharma.
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