Calling private method in C++

Question

This is purely a theoretical question, I know that if someone declares a method private, you probably shouldn\'t call it. I managed to call private virtual methods and chang

Answer 1

If we are speaking of MSVC, I think the simplest way with no other harm than the fact of calling a private method itself is the great __asm:

class A
{
private:
    void TestA () {};
};

A a;
__asm
{
    // MSVC assumes (this) to be in the ecx.
    // We cannot use mov since (a) is located on the stack
    // (i.e. [ebp + ...] or [esp - ...])
    lea     ecx, [a]
    call    A::TestA
}