I know virtual inheritance is covered here before and before asking this question, I went through the detail of the virtual inheritance and went through the details of a sim
The most-derived class has to provide an implementation of the virtual functions in the virtual base class - otherwise how would it provide that base class interface, given the intermediate classes (i.e. your der1
and der2
) provide two alternatives already - which one should it call? You have to disambiguate the situation (i.e. with der3::fun()
).
Sure you're not actually calling der3::fun()
as you're explicitly requesting base::fun()
, but that doesn't mean the rules don't apply, any more than thinking you could instantiate an abstract class if you don't try to call the pure-virtual functions.... The program is ill-formed until the code ties off these loose ends.