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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
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<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="1516"></A><H4>1516.
  
Definition of &#8220;virtual function call&#8221;
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<B>Section: </B>7.6.1.3&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/expr.call">expr.call</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD3
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Nikolay Ivchenkov
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 <B>Date: </B>2012-07-05<BR>


<P>[Moved to DR at the April, 2013 meeting.]</P>



<P>The terms &#8220;virtual function call&#8221; and &#8220;virtual
call&#8221; are used in the Standard but are not defined.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (August, 2012):</B></P>

<P>Change 7.6.1.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/expr.call#1">expr.call</A>] paragraph 1 as follows:</P>

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If the selected function is non-virtual, or if the
<I>id-expression</I> in the class member access expression is a
<I>qualified-id</I>, that function is called. Otherwise, its final
overrider (11.7.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/class.virtual">class.virtual</A>]) in the dynamic type of the
object expression is called<INS>; such a call is referred to as a
<I>virtual function call</I></INS>.

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