Where do “pure virtual function call” crashes come from?

int __cdecl _purecall(void)

int __cdecl _purecall(void)

class A
{
  A *pThis;
  public:
  A()
   : pThis(this)
  {
  }

  void callFoo()
  {
    pThis->foo(); // call through the pThis ptr which was initialized in the constructor
  }

  virtual void foo() = 0;
};

class B : public A
{
public:
  virtual void foo()
  {
  }
};

B b();
b.callFoo();