vtable

plural vtables

1. computingA table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.

   Note that nonvirtual functions do not appear in a vtable.

   2003, John C. Mitchell, Concepts in programming languages

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   This solution allows the Command executor to iterate through a collection of unrelated objects with no vtables and pick out the right method for each one.

   2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems

   The most likely result will be a crash when the code tries to use a vtable entry that contains random garbage.

   2003, Steve Heller, C++: a dialogue: programming with the C++ standard library

   Synonyms: vftable, VMT