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While debugging one of the program’s core dump I came across the scenario where its contained object which is polymorphic loses its VPTr and I can see its pointing to NULL.
What could be the scenario when an object loses its VPTr.
Thanks in advance,
Brijesh
The memory has been trashed, i.e. something overwrote the memory.
You destroyed it by calling delete or by invoking the destructor directly. This typically does not NULL out the vptr, it will just end up having it point to the vtable of the base class, but that depends on your implementation.
Most likely, case 1. If you have a debugger that has memory breakpoints and if you can reproduce the problem reliably, set a memory breakpoint on the vptr and see what’s modifying it.