I have heard this term, “vtable fixup”, used. What does it mean? I had no success asking Google. I already know what a vtable is so that does not need to be defined.
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I have heard this term, “vtable fixup”, used. What does it mean? I had no success asking Google. I already know what a vtable is so that does not need to be defined.
The simple answer: It’s a hack to allow code generated by different compilers / languages to coexist. It allows the runtime to find the locations of virtual functions without knowing the details of the implementation.