What are Virtual Functions?

Virtual Functions are the basis of Polymorphism – they provide the mechanics of late binding. A class, which has at least one function declared as Virtual has a V-Table associated with it. V-Table maintains pointers of all the Virtual functions of that class.

All objects of that class point to the same V-Table. Whenever there is a call made to a function which is virtual, the pointer to that function is obtained during runtime from the V-Table. Hence there is dynamic binding or late binding that leads to the function of the derived class getting called.

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