问题
Sometimes I am working with relatively complex (and sometimes confusing - with the way they are laid out by whoever wrote it originally) abstract classes. When inheriting from it, I sometimes encounter cannot instantiate abstract class and most of the time it is because I forgot to declare & implement a pure virtual function. Can I get more information from the compiler about which function it found I did not implement instead of hunting for it?
回答1:
Are you using Visual Studio? If so, then switch from Error List tab to Output tab. There will be something like:
main.cpp(8): error C2259: 'foo' : cannot instantiate abstract class
due to following members:
'void Foo::method(char)' : is abstract
回答2:
Whenever you encounter that message, then it immediately means that you have not defined a pure virtual function in the derived class, and you want to create an instance of it. And if you're using a good compiler then, I'm sure, it indicates which pure virtual function you didn't implement. At least, GCC indicates that.
See the error message here: http://www.ideone.com/83iDk
prog.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
prog.cpp:11: error: cannot declare variable ‘a’ to be of abstract type ‘A’
prog.cpp:6: note: because the following virtual functions are pure within ‘A’:
prog.cpp:7: note: virtual void A::f()
That is more than enough that you didn't implement A::f().
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6295114/more-information-on-cannot-instantiate-abstract-class