http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47940
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |diagnostic Summary|can call a pure virtual |warn about calls to a pure |from a |virtual from a |constructor/destructor |constructor/destructor --- Comment #3 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-03-01 12:19:40 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > If it was a direct call, there would be a linker error. Not if the pure virtual has a definition, and not with all compilers. G++ does warn about that case though. None of the compilers I tested issued a diagnostic about indirectly making a virtual call to a pure virtual function.