On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:17:00 +0100, "John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Zak Kipling wrote:
From discussion on the above bug page, it appears unclear whether this or not this code is actually legal... has the patch broken something which should be expected to work, or are the existing versions of gcc and Comeau accepting illegal code?
It looks borderline to me: I suspect that gcc is correct in complaining about this, of course that doesn't mean it *has* to diagnose this as an error, simply that it is probably permitted to do so.
But why? I can't see anything in the standard supporting this point of view. To Zak: what's the point of having the class Z in your example? -- [ Gennaro Prota. C++ developer, Library designer. ] [ For Hire http://gennaro-prota.50webs.com/ ]