virtual functions changing from protected to private - question

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"MatthiasM" <dm at matthiasm.com> wrote in message 
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> So, umm, after debugging my app for quite a while (OSX gdc), I saw that 
> B.draw is not called. Is that intentional?
> I would have expected "MenuWindow", thinking that all functions are 
> automatically virtual. I understand that private unctions are not virtual 
> on a base class, since they can't be overridden anyways. But is that true 
> for a derived class too?

Since you've made it private, the compiler makes it nonvirtual.  Since it's 
nonvirtual, it doesn't live in the virtual table at all.  So it doesn't 
override the Window.draw().  Virtual methods and nonvirtual methods live in 
two different places, so it's not really possible to override a virtual 
method with a nonvirtual method.