Does using __declspec(novtable) on abstract base classes affect RTTI in any way?

Question

Or, are there any other known negative affects of employing __declspec(novtable)? I can\'t seem to find references to any issues.

Answer 1

if I understand it correctly: Any virtual fn call inside a ctor or a dtor is converted to a compile time linking. We cannot make virtual fn calls from the (c/d)tors. The reason is that at the time the object of the base class is getting created it has no knowledge of the derived class and hence cannot make the call to derived class and w.r.t the dtors the same logic applies.