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From: schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: Inherited constructors
Message-ID: <257613ED.3646@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 06:02:21 GMT
References: <8912010420.AA27527@salmon.ee.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
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Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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In-reply-to: mikeb@SALMON.EE.UBC.CA (Mike Bolotski)

In article <8912010420.AA27527@salmon.ee.ubc.ca>, mikeb@SALMON (Mike Bolotski) writes:
>
>I don't know whether this is a g++ bug or a 2.0 feature again, as I
>don't have access to cfront.  The Lippman book seems to allow the
>behaviour, and g++ 1.35 allowed it too.  How else should an interited
>constructor be used?

This is a known bug with 1.36.2-.  As a workaround, try casting
the base initialization of Alpha, e.g.,

inline Beta::Beta(const Beta& b) : Alpha((Alpha &)b), y('z') {}

Doug
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