[prog] C++ Inheritance

[Jimen Ching]

On Fri, 24 May 2003, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
>Linking of C++ code is somewhat of a cryptic art and perhaps in the
>chain of inheritance a call to fstream(int, char *, int) was called?

What most likely happened is that fstream(const char *, int, int) is an
inline that calls the above mentioned constructor.  In the C++ world, the
optimization step can change your code in ways you don't expect.  It is
both a powerful and a dangerous feature.  It's black magic until one
understands how it all works.  ;)

--jc
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