Advice needed on BIC

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira, 14 de Dezembro de 2010, às 20:53:50, Alexander Neundorf 
escreveu:
> A private function cannot be called by anybody outside the class, it can
> only  be called from within the class, so private symbols should not make
> it into any user of the class, so removing private functions should be ok.
> But if the private function is called from an inline function, then the
> call actually moves into the calling code, so it now references the private
> function, and BC would break if it was removed.
> (I experienced something similar with std::string and different  versions
> of  STL recently, a STL-standard function was implemented inline and called
> a private non-standard function... :-/ )

Don't forget the virtual rule overrides this:

You cannot remove, reorder or change the signature in any way of virtual 
functions, including private ones.

You can override a parent's private virtual.
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