From: dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: vectors of derived objects Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 15:56:04 GMT Organization: always disorganized Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3aa11402.12416404@news.freeserve.net> References: <3aa1079f DOT 55821769 AT news1 DOT on DOT sympatico DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-49.clown-goby.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: news6.svr.pol.co.uk 983634965 28506 62.136.247.49 (3 Mar 2001 15:56:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 2001 15:56:05 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Martin Smith wrote: > The vector template apparently casts all elements in the > vector as base objects in the situation where class T has classes > derived from it. > > I would like to ba able to have the vector elements be able to use > virtual function calls, so I guess the question is whether there is > another template other than vector that I don't know about. This is a question about C++, not DJGPP, so you would have been better asking on comp.lang.c++. But the answer is easy: you should use vector rather than a vector. (You can use smart pointers instead of real pointers if it makes it any easier.)