Destructors for C++ Interface-like classes

Question

Starting to use PC-Lint on an existing code base (fear and trepidation).

One thing that it complains about is the following:

 class IBatch
 {
 public         


        

Answer 1

Compiler puts default destructor that is not virtual, which implies that a 'delete' on a pointer to the virtual base class will succeed with a resulting memory leak. Therefore, it is an implementation flaw, neither style or coding error.