与面向对象的语言(如Smalltalk或Python)不同，这些语言的构造函数是表示类的对象的虚拟方法(这意味着您不需要GoF抽象工厂模式，因为您可以传递表示类的对象，而不是自己创建)，c++是一种基于类的语言，并且没有表示语言的任何构造的对象。该类在运行时不作为对象存在，因此不能对其调用虚方法。

这符合“不用就不用付钱”的理念，尽管我所见过的每个大型c++项目最终都实现了某种形式的抽象工厂或反射。

虚函数基本上提供多态行为。也就是说，当您使用的对象的动态类型与引用它的静态(编译时)类型不同时，它提供的行为适合于对象的实际类型，而不是对象的静态类型。

现在尝试将这种行为应用于构造函数。当你构造一个对象时，静态类型总是与实际的对象类型相同，因为:

要构造一个对象，构造函数需要它要创建的对象的确切类型[…]此外[…]]则不能有指向构造函数的指针

Bjarne Stroustup (P424 c++编程语言SE)

我能想到两个原因:

技术原因

对象只有在构造函数结束后才存在。为了使用虚拟表分派构造函数，必须有一个现有的对象和指向虚拟表的指针，但是如果对象仍然不存在，指向虚拟表的指针怎么可能存在呢?：）

逻辑的原因

当您想要声明某种多态行为时，可以使用virtual关键字。但是构造函数没有任何多态性，c++中的构造函数只是简单地将对象数据放到内存中。由于虚表(以及一般的多态性)都是关于多态行为而不是多态数据的，因此声明虚构造函数没有任何意义。

A virtual-table(vtable) is made for each Class having one or more 'virtual-functions'. Whenever an Object is created of such class, it contains a 'virtual-pointer' which points to the base of corresponding vtable. Whenever there is a virtual function call, the vtable is used to resolve to the function address. Constructor can not be virtual, because when constructor of a class is executed there is no vtable in the memory, means no virtual pointer defined yet. Hence the constructor should always be non-virtual.

When a constructor is invoked, although there is no object created till that point, we still know the kind of object that is gonna be created because the specific constructor of the class to which the object belongs to has already been called. Virtual keyword associated with a function means the function of a particular object type is gonna be called. So, my thinking says that there is no need to make the virtual constructor because already the desired constructor whose object is gonna be created has been invoked and making constructor virtual is just a redundant thing to do because the object-specific constructor has already been invoked and this is same as calling class-specific function which is achieved through the virtual keyword. Although the inner implementation won’t allow virtual constructor for vptr and vtable related reasons.

Another reason is that C++ is a statically typed language and we need to know the type of a variable at compile-time. The compiler must be aware of the class type to create the object. The type of object to be created is a compile-time decision. If we make the constructor virtual then it means that we don’t need to know the type of the object at compile-time(that’s what virtual function provide. We don’t need to know the actual object and just need the base pointer to point an actual object call the pointed object’s virtual functions without knowing the type of the object) and if we don’t know the type of the object at compile time then it is against the statically typed languages. And hence, run-time polymorphism cannot be achieved. Hence, Constructor won’t be called without knowing the type of the object at compile-time. And so the idea of making a virtual constructor fails.

听可靠消息。：）

选自Bjarne Stroustrup的c++风格和技术常见问题解答为什么没有虚拟构造函数?

虚拟调用是一种在给定局部条件下完成工作的机制 信息。特别地，“virtual”允许我们调用一个函数 只知道任何接口，而不知道对象的确切类型。来 创建对象时需要完整的信息。特别是，你 需要知道你想要创建的确切类型。因此, “对构造函数的调用”不能是虚的。

FAQ条目继续给出了一种不使用虚拟构造函数实现此目的的方法的代码。