different between votable vs vtable

English

Etymology

vote +? -able

Adjective

votable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being voted upon.

   a votable proposal

2. Eligible to vote.
   • 1849, Constitution and By-laws of the Reading Savings Association

     Each member, being a votable citizen of the State shall have the right to vote, but shall have but one ballot.

Antonyms

• nonvotable

English

Etymology

Shortening of virtual method table or virtual function table.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?vi?te?b?l/
• Rhymes: -e?b?l

Noun

vtable (plural vtables)

1. (computing, programming) A table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.
   • 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems

     This solution allows the Command executor to iterate through a collection of unrelated objects with no vtables and pick out the right method for each one.

   • 2003, John C. Mitchell, Concepts in programming languages

     Note that nonvirtual functions do not appear in a vtable.

   • 2003, Steve Heller, C++: a dialogue: programming with the C++ standard library

     The most likely result will be a crash when the code tries to use a vtable entry that contains random garbage.