[fpc-devel] Class property and virtual getter

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 28 May 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 05/26/2014 08:25 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>> 
>> Here... happy now? ;)
> Very happy indeed :-) .
>
> (Silly me did not remember the "ClassName" property. With same the test is as 
> easy as you showed.)
>
> Now thinking about why I had been confused is that obviously "self" of an 
> instance _does_ determine the VMT of the class it is an instance of. That is 
> why I erroneously assumed only an instance has a VMT. Now after learning that 
> the VMT is provided already for the class itself seemingly as a static 
> record, I wonder if the dynamic instance record has a just a pointer to the 
> VMT of the class or if the classes  VMT gets copied when creating an 
> instance.

AFAIK : Just a pointer to the correct VMT.

Michael.