vtable
nounUK /ˈviːteɪbəl/
Etymology Shortening of virtual method table or virtual function table.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.
- This solution allows the Command executor to iterate through a collection of unrelated objects with no vtables and pick out the right method for each one.2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems:
- Note that nonvirtual functions do not appear in a vtable.2003, John C. Mitchell, Concepts in programming languages:
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- The most likely result will be a crash when the code tries to use a vtable entry that contains random garbage.2003, Steve Heller, C++: a dialogue: programming with the C++ standard library: