virtual destructor SYNTAX

Hi, i got a destructor for a class Base1.
my syntax/format is wrong. can some-one correct it for me?

Code:

Base1::virtual  ~Base1() { 
          cout << "Destroy Base" << endl;
}

Thanks,

All your qualifiers (eg: static, virtual, inline, etc) belong on the far left. Or, put another way, just as you declared it within the class with Base:: appended to the function name.

i.e.

Code:

virtual Base1::~Base1()
{ 
          std::cout << "destroy all yer base" << std::endl;
}

hi, did this declaration for my virtual desctructor.it continues to give me this error:virtual outside class declaration using dev c++ compiler

Code:

 #include <iostream>
 using namespace std;
 
class Base1
{
private:
    int baseValue;
public:
    Base1(int y):baseValue(y){} 
    virtual ~Base1();
};

virtual Base1::~Base1()
{ 
    std::cout << "destroy all yer base" << std::endl;
}

int main()
{

}

Originally Posted by CodeMonkey

i.e.

Code:

virtual Base1::~Base1()
{ 
          std::cout << "destroy all yer base" << std::endl;
}

Not quite. The virtual keyword can only be used in the class declaration, not in that type of definition. Compiling this on Comeau gives me:

Code:

"ComeauTest.c", line 8: error: invalid specifier outside a class declaration
  virtual A::~A()
  ^

Code:

class A
{
  int m_A;
public:
  virtual ~A();
};

virtual A::~A()  // Remove the virtual keyword here.
{
  m_A = 5;
}

int main()
{
  A a;
  return 0;
}

Geez, what the hell was I thinking? I really need a vacation.

Whoops. I'll use Sebastiani's excuse.