What is early and late binding?

anshika-sharma-ac2988d4 · 15 August 2020 06:09

sakshi-srivastava-f3c2a4a4 · 7 September 2020 23:57

Binding refers to the process of converting identifiers (variables etc) into addresses. It is done for each variable and function and is done either at compile-time or at runtime.

In function overloading your method calls to the same name function are decided by the compiler that which function is going to be called at compile time. This is EARLY BINDING . By default early binding happens in C++.
In function Overriding, same thing is decided at runtime which method is going to be called. So it is LATE BINDING. This can be achieved by declaring a virtual function.