Re: query on dynamic cast

Bharath wrote:
> Hello All,
> I was trying the below example for which I have a doubt. My doubt is
> that why is virtual needed for function "dummy" in class CBase which
> makes program compile?
> Secondly, As per my current understanding of dynamic cast, pba is a
> object of CDerived which RTTI knows and hence cast should be
> successful. Isn't it? Which concept I didn't understand here ?
That dynamic_cast only works for polymorphic types (i.e. ones that have
at least one virtual function in the base class)

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