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September 21st, 2013, 07:07 AM
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Re: Online C++ Test Questions
Originally Posted by gulHK
Hello everyone
Could anyone please help me with this online interview question?
Code:
Object1 and Object2 are the names of two different classes.
The Class Object2 has one Object and the Class Object1 does not have any objects
Object2 obj2 = new Object2();
cout << dynamic_cast< Object1>(obj2) << endl; ....... what does this line print?
Many Thanks
As previously discussed in this thread, the statement
Code:
Object2 obj2 = new Object2();
is valid if and only if Object2 has a constructor that takes a Object2* as parameter and that constructor isn't declared as explicit.
If the Object1 and Object2 classes are distinct with no relationship between them, then even assuming the obj2 assignment is correct, I doubt the dynamic_cast statement will compile and I would expect a compile error along the lines that Object2 is not polymorphic.
IMO whos ever setting these interview questions are not doing a very good job of producing understandable c++ code in the absence of class definitions! If I was given this code I would be saying that it doesn't compile - but I suspect the answer they are looking for is null (null pointer) as the dynamic_cast will fail.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.71%29.aspx
Last edited by 2kaud; September 21st, 2013 at 07:10 AM.
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