Subject: speaking of C++...
From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (cuenca@celium.net)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 14:22:32 CDT
ok, I've been debuggin ~2 hours to fix this one...
NEVER call a virtual method from a constructor.
In the constructor of XAP_EncodingManager & XAP_UnixEncodingManager we
can found a single line:
{ initialize(); }
I don't know why g++ was so severely screwed to build a non-sense object
file (maybe is due to my version) instead of just build a version that
calls the base method, and I don't know why it worked before my changes,
but it seems to me obvious that the author of this class wanted to call
the XAP_EncodingManager::initialize method from the XAP_EncodingManager
ctor and XAP_UnixEncodingManager::initialize from the
XAP_UnixEncodingManager ctor, BUT initialize actually is a VIRTUAL
method (and it took me ~2 hours fighting with the debugger to realize
it).
So, please, try to avoid virtual methods calls from ctors and dtors.
Cheers,
-- Joaquín Cuenca Abela (who has a heavy headache...) cuenca@celium.net
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