Re: how to non-default construct with multiple virtual inheritance??

From:
"Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 3 Jun 2010 01:54:40 CST
Message-ID:
<86nnlqFthnU1@mid.individual.net>
Mark_Galeck wrote:

Hello,

how to write a non-default constructor for a class that inherits an
indirect base class, with multiple intermediate classes that list
the base as virtual? In the SSCCE below, the compiler complains
"error: no matching function for call to ??Base::Base()". Thank you,

Mark

class Base {
public:
Base(int) {
}
};

class Intermediate0: public virtual Base {
public:
Intermediate0(int arg) :
Base(arg) {
}
};

class Intermediate1: public virtual Base {
public:
Intermediate1(int arg) :
Base(arg) {
}
};

class Derived: public Intermediate0, public Intermediate1 {
public:
Derived(int arg) :
Intermediate0(arg), Intermediate1(arg) {
}
};

main() {}


You should add Base(arg) to the initializer list of the most derived
class. That class will call the virtual base constructor, and the
intermediate classes will not. This is a special rule for virtual
bases (section 12.6.2 of the standard).

Bo Persson

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