- During multiple inheritance Virtual Inheritance is used to remove the ambiguity of base class, when a derived class inherits the same base class via other classes in C++.
- For example, we consider four classes A, B, C, and D.
- If an object of type D tries to access members of A, ambiguity arises as to which class it should resolve.
- If it is class D that C inherited or it is class D that B inherited as a result, compiler throws an error.
- We declare that B and C inherit A virtually, to remove this ambiguity.
- It ensures that an object of type D will contain only set of member variables from A.
Sample Code
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