Thread: Virtual Method question...

Hello.

For some reason my virtual base method is being called on a pointer to a derived object that overrides the virtual base method. And I don't understand why... Here's some psuedo code that illustrates the situation I'm in:

Code:

class Base
{
     virtual void doSomething();
}

class Derived : public Base
{

     void doSomething();
}

int main()
{
     Base* p;  
     List<Base*>  list;
     list.add(new Derived()); 
     p = list.pop();
     p->doSomething();   // For some reason this is calling Base::doSomething()

     return 0;  
}

Based on the above scenario, does anyone see why p->doSomething() calls the Base method? Or any guesses as to what I'm doing wrong?