HELP!!! inheritance and other stuff

I need to finish this project by tomorrow night and i am nowhere near done, so the SOS is officially sent, someone please help me, code is attached and project description can be found here:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/courses/under....projfour.html

ok, i got the inheritance part working (adding public : Number to each .h file) so dont worry about that, if anyone can get my multiplication overload in fixedpoint working that would be great, it would be even greater if someone got the division one working in the same function

also any of the functions that return pointers (scale, square, and raise) in any of the classes, i cant get them working, if anyone can great, im pretty sure the rest of this project is fine, my big problem is the overloads in fixed point, i cant seem to get my algorythm to work right

also i dont think my exception handler works right, it throws and catches just fine but the data it throws to say which function and class the error happened in dosnt set or something, ill prob figure that out in the next 10 minutes or so

i lied in the last one, the inheritance stuff sint working, i can compile each file but i cant link them all, tons o errors

I had a look at your code. Some points -

1. Default arguments should be specified in the declaration, not the definition.

2. If you don't override virtual methods of abstract classes then the derived classes themselves are abstract, so you can't create an instance of them.

3. If you are deriving a class, make sure that the base class declaration is visible to the derived class.

There are other errors, but these should be relatively easy to fix once you've dealt with the above.

what do you mean by default arguments

in a new version of the code i included number.h in all of the derived class .h files, so i think that should solve the third one.
and im not sure what you mean in the second one at all. i thought i was overridding them...actually i think i may know, ill get back to you in a bit

Default args -

class a
{
void foo(int i =0);//here
};

void a::foo(int i)//not here
{
//do stuff
}


The problem with your overriding is that you're changing the return types. The compiler can't find the definitions for these functions, so is treating all your classes as abstract.

Since you're using polymorphism you should only be explicitly using Number pointers. Your overloaded functions are returning pointers to Rational objects and FixedPoint objects when they can and should return pointers to Number objects(and then the vtable will resolve any function calls). Also you're using a Rational pointer in main (rat7), when you only need a Number pointer.

i changed some stuff around, seems i only have one very annoying error at the moment, and im still not sure what you ment about the shared functions

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seems i only have one very annoying error at the moment

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I got 130 plus. Your code is now missing implementation for -

FixedPoint::raise();
FixedPoint::magnitude();
Complex::magnitude();

You need to specify the namespace for functions/objects your files are using.

Your base class virtual destructor shouldn't be pure.

You should be returning Number* everywhere in your code where you are presently returning Complex*, FixedPoint*, and Rational*.

base class destructor cant be non pure, my dumbass prof said it should be in his description and we cant change that

I cant get rid of the destructor related errors, even if i do make it non pure virtual

and i tried returning a number pointer in the functions but got more errors

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base class destructor cant be non pure, my dumbass prof said it should be in his description and we cant change that

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Then you'll still have to provide an empty implementation for it. Ask your dumbass professor why he needs it to be pure.

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and i tried returning a number pointer in the functions but got more errors

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I don't know what to suggest without you posting your code or errors, but I've had your code running(with placeholders) so this should work.

here are my errors

mak: Command not found.
linux1[38]% make
/usr/local/bin/g++ -oproj4 -f proj4.o Rational.o Complex.o FixedPoint.o DivideBy
Zero.o
Rational.o: In function `Rational::Rational(int, int)':
Rational.o(.text+0x18a): undefined reference to `Number::~Number(void)'
Rational.o: In function `Rational::~Rational(void)':
Rational.o(.text+0x1c0): undefined reference to `Number::~Number(void)'
Rational.o: In function `Rational::Rational(Rational const &)':
Rational.o(.Rational::gnu.linkonce.t.(Rational const &)+0x44): undefined referen
ce to `Number::~Number(void)'
Complex.o: In function `Complex::Complex(float, float)':
Complex.o(.text+0x3a): undefined reference to `Number::~Number(void)'
Complex.o: In function `Complex::~Complex(void)':
Complex.o(.text+0x70): undefined reference to `Number::~Number(void)'
Complex.o(.Complex::gnu.linkonce.t.(Complex const &)+0x44): more undefined refer
ences to `Number::~Number(void)' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [proj4] Error 1
linux1[39]%

i tried making the destructor non pure virtual...but i dont think i can implement it, if there is a number.cpp file included he will ignore it, i sent him an e-mail but if i know him ill just get a sarcasting "your an idiot" type response back, just like you get if you ask a question in class...yeesh...
anyway, the previous version of code i posted is almost up to date, i just added some implementation for the functions that were missing it, far as i can tell from the errors the destructor thing is the only problem

There's no way around the destructor implementation. You'll either have to put it in it's own file or try something like this -

virtual ~Number ( )=0{}

You can't declare a destructor without providing an implementation, which makes pure virtual destructors pointless unless they are the only thing that is forcing the class to be abstract.

yeah, i tried doing it that way already but it didnt work, how did you get it to work?

i respectully withdraw this post, i got it working, thank you so much zen, you helped a lot...once i get this thing out of the way i plan to surf around this message board and help as many people as i can =)
you guys are the best!