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title: "C++ Insights Episode 72: Why you should never call a virtual member function in a constructor"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/c-insights-episode-72-why-you-should-never-call-a-virtual-member-function-in-a-constructor-jphujl39g
source_url: https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/03/cpp-insights-episode-72-why-you-should-never-call-a-virtual-member-function-in-a-constructor/
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source: "Andreas Fertig"
published: 2026-03-19T11:16:13.428Z
updated: 2026-03-19T11:16:31.522Z
tags: ["general-programming", "c++"]
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# C++ Insights Episode 72: Why you should never call a virtual member function in a constructor

**[Andreas Fertig](https://daily.dev/sources/andreasfertig)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A C++ Insights episode explaining why calling virtual member functions from a constructor is dangerous. Through examples, it demonstrates the pitfalls of this pattern, which stems from how C++ constructs objects and resolves virtual dispatch during construction.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/03/cpp-insights-episode-72-why-you-should-never-call-a-virtual-member-function-in-a-constructor/>

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