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From: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: Can't assign 'this' in a constructor
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Date: 2 Dec 89 23:08:09 GMT
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Reply-To: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
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Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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In-reply-to: patrick@cos.com (Patrick Steranka)

In article <8912022231.AA26818@qna.cos.com>, patrick@cos (Patrick Steranka) writes:
>In BS, pg 164, 5.5.6 it states:
>
>	The assignment to "this" [in a constructor function] informs
>	the compiler that the programmer has taken control and that the
>	default mechanism for allocating storage should not be used.
>
>This does not seem to be supported by the GNU g++ compiler.
>Instead, the error
>
>	assignment of read-only parameter `$this'

try using the -fthis-is-variable flag.

Doug
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