Does anyone have a way of registering virtual classes with the factory? Using the object_utils macro will define the type_id::create(...) method which calls new(...) for the virtual class which is illegal.
Naturally, a type override would be mandatory for any virtual class registered with the factory. It would be cool if anyone had an elegant solution for this.
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this in the UVM with a virtual class without recreating your own factory. However, you could instrument the build_phase() of this class to check that the class has been overridden. Either way you would not be able to check this until run time. So you lose the compiler check that a virtual class provides, so why bother using it.
