Virtual Destructors

[JasBeckC]

Hello everybody,

I understand the use of virtual destructors but i don't get why should one put the destructor of the derived class virtual:

why would this be wrong? :

class Base{
public:
virtual ~Base();
//some virtual methods 

class Derived: public Base{
public:
~Derived(); //this is not virtual
//Implementation of the virtual methods 

thank you in advance

[Peter87]

If the destructor of the base class is virtual the destructor of the derived class will be virtual even if you don't use the virtual keyword.

[JasBeckC]

aha okay.

thank you!!