Re: query on dynamic cast

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Bharath <tiromarch08@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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 ?
> 
   because the base claass with no virtual functions/dtor does not
generate any RTTI info, since the base class has no runtime virtual
calls nothing needs to be generated, It should work if the base class
had a virtual dtor.

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