Why are inline constructors and destructors not a good idea in C++?

Question

I remember reading in one of the C++ books (quite some time ago) that it is not a good idea to have inline Constructors and Destructors especially for derived class. I understa

Answer 1

I don't know about constructors, but destructors are very often virtual. In most cases, it doesn't make sense for the compiler to inline virtual functions, because it's not known until runtime which override is going to be called.