Virtual call from constructor or destructor

Reports virtual member function calls from constructors or destructors. Since construction starts with the base class and moves to the derived classes, the resources of the derived class are not yet initialized. Destruction is performed in reverse order, so calling a virtual function can lead to accessing the resources that have already been destroyed.

Example:

  class Test {
  public:
      void virtual setUp();

      Test() {
          setUp();
      }
  };

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

VirtualCallInCtorOrDtor

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | C/C++ | General

Inspection ID: VirtualCallInCtorOrDtor

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection VirtualCallInCtorOrDtor

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

CLion 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2025.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	CLion, 2025.2

Last modified: 18 September 2025