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EXP-7 Inheritance and Function Overriding

The document explains the concepts of inheritance and function overriding in C++. Inheritance allows a child class to acquire properties and behaviors from a parent class, while function overriding enables the child class to redefine a function already present in the parent class, facilitating runtime polymorphism. Two C++ code examples illustrate these concepts, demonstrating how function calls are resolved at runtime and compile time.

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EXP-7 Inheritance and Function Overriding

The document explains the concepts of inheritance and function overriding in C++. Inheritance allows a child class to acquire properties and behaviors from a parent class, while function overriding enables the child class to redefine a function already present in the parent class, facilitating runtime polymorphism. Two C++ code examples illustrate these concepts, demonstrating how function calls are resolved at runtime and compile time.

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Programs to implement Inheritance and Function overriding


 In C++, inheritance is a process in which one object acquires all the properties and behaviors of
its parent object automatically.
 In such a way, you can reuse, extend or modify the attributes and behaviors which are defined in
other classes.
 The function overriding concept exists due to the inheritance in C++.
 The function overriding in C++ aids us to use a function with the same name that is in the child
class that is already present in its parent class.
 The function overriding in C++ is used to achieve runtime polymorphism. Runtime
polymorphism is also known as dynamic polymorphism or late binding.
 In runtime polymorphism, the function call is resolved at run time. In contrast, to compile-time
or static polymorphism, the compiler deduces the object at run time and then decides which
function call to bind to the object.

//Example 1: C++ program to demonstrate function overriding

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Animal {
public:
void sound() {
cout << "Animal sound" << endl;
}
};

class Lion : public Animal {


public:
void sound() {
cout << "Roar" << endl;
}
};

int main() {
Animal a;
a.sound();

Lion l;
l.sound();
return 0;
}
Output:
"Animal sound"
"Roar"

// Example 2: C++ program to demonstrate compile time function overriding


#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Parent {
public:
void GeeksforGeeks_Print()
{
cout << "Base Function" << endl;
}
};

class Child : public Parent {


public:
void GeeksforGeeks_Print()
{
cout << "Derived Function" << endl;
}
};

int main()
{
Child Child_Derived;
Child_Derived.GeeksforGeeks_Print();
return 0;
}

Output
Derived Function

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