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From: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: bug in g++ 1.35.0 -- no fix
Keywords: visibility rules
Message-ID: <1989Aug29.042745.2420@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 89 04:27:45 GMT
References: <235@argosy.UUCP>
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Reply-To: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
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In-reply-to: becher@argosy.UUCP (Jonathan D. Becher)

In article <235@argosy.UUCP>, becher@argosy (Jonathan D. Becher) writes:
>We brought up g++ 1.35.0 last week and ran into a series of problems.
>The only one I wasn't able to work around is the following:
>
>The following code incorrectly, I believe, calls the derived method
>instead of the base class method.  Is this still a problem in newer
>versions?  What can I do for a fix?
>class parent {
>public:
>    int foo() { printf("parent\n"); }
>};
>
>class child : public parent {
>public:
>    int foo() { printf("child\n"); }
>};
>
>main()
>{
>    child bar;
>
>    int i = bar.parent::foo();
>}

My version of g++ (a beta 1.36 based upon gcc-1.35.97) prints

parent

I assume this means the bug is fixed?!

Doug
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