virtual overloaded functions and base class function call...

[nouknouk]

Hello,


I've got a comprehension problem of what happend in one of the project
i'm working on. It's (I think) a pure c++ problem...

Basically I've got a class gs_object than has got a VIRTUAL function
createList(). This createList() function is overloaded in another class
named ct_server that inherits gs_object.

in my code, it looks something like that :

class gs_object {
 ...
 virtual void createList();
 ...
};

class gs_object {
 ...
 virtual void createList();
 ...
};

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class ct_server : public gs_object {
 ...
 virtual void createList();
 void initInstance();
 ...
};

class ct_server : public gs_object {
 ...
 virtual void createList();
 void initInstance();
 ...
};

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Here is the problem : in the function ct_server::initInstance, one boy of my team wanted to
call the gs_object::createList() base function, and not the overloaded
one (ct_server::createList() ). But, according to me he made a mistake
as he wrote :

(static_cast<GS_object*>(this))->createList();

instead of

gs_object::createList();

According to me, as createList() is virtual, this line of code should
call ct_server::createList and not gs_object::createList()

But it doesn't : when in run in debug mode, i can see it calls
gs_object::createList();

I can't understand why. Could you explain me ?
FYI, i'm using Visual C++ 7.1.3 ; Qt 3.3.4