c++重写private函数的一个坑

在Android中发现以下代码，感觉很是不可思议，threadLoop()为什么不是protected，难道private还能被重写？

class Thread : virtual public RefBase
{
   
...
private:
    // Derived class must implement threadLoop(). The thread starts its life
    // here. There are two ways of using the Thread object:
    // 1) loop: if threadLoop() returns true, it will be called again if
    //          requestExit() wasn't called.