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vtable

vtable

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Noun

vtable ‎(plural vtables)

(computing, programming) A table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.
- 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems
  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.
- 2003, John C. Mitchell, Concepts in programming languages
  Note that nonvirtual functions do not appear in a vtable.
- 2003, Steve Heller, C++: a dialogue: programming with the C++ standard library
  The most likely result will be a crash when the code tries to use a vtable entry that contains random garbage.