Re: Calling a Private function using Virtual Instance

Hi all,

please look at this code

"

class VirtualBase{

          public:
        virtual int method1() = 0;
        virtual int method2()=0;
        virtual int method3()=0

};

class DerivedBase:public VirtualBase
{
        public:
        int method1(){
                return 2;
        }
        int method2(){
                return 2;
        }
       private:
        int method3(){
                return 2;
        }

};

void main(){

        DerivedBase ObjDerivedBase;
        VirtualBase *ObjVirtualBase;

        ObjVirtualBase = new DerivedBase;
        cout<<"\nReturn:"<<ObjVirtualBase->method3();

}

"

Here..inspite of DerivedBase::method3() being private, i can still
call it using a pointer to VirtualBase after assigning a object of
DerivedBase.

I have difficulty understanding how this could be possible?