[LLVMdev] why dummy asserting base/interface class virtual methods instead of pure virtual methods?
Jeff Kunkel
jdkunk3 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 09:01:30 PST 2011
Software engineers like to work/test on one function at a time. So being
able to compile and test is an important factor when creating/writing code.
Thus, the functions are not pure-virtual. They fail at run time instead.
- Jeff
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Heikki Kultala <hkultala at cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> LLVM code base seems to be full of base/interface classes, which have
> methods like
>
> virtual SDValue
> LowerCall(SDValue Chain, SDValue Callee,
> CallingConv::ID CallConv, bool isVarArg, bool &isTailCall,
> const SmallVectorImpl<ISD::OutputArg> &Outs,
> const SmallVectorImpl<SDValue> &OutVals,
> const SmallVectorImpl<ISD::InputArg> &Ins,
> DebugLoc dl, SelectionDAG &DAG,
> SmallVectorImpl<SDValue> &InVals) const {
> assert(0 && "Not Implemented");
> return SDValue(); // this is here to silence compiler errors
> }
>
>
>
>
> Why are these not pure virtual methods?
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