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From: vaughan%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@MCC.COM (Paul Vaughan)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: backward error message
Message-ID: <8912061745.AA12598@puma.cad.mcc.com>
Date: 6 Dec 89 17:45:11 GMT
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	The following source
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struct base {
  void foo() {}
};

struct derived {
  void foo() { base::foo(); }  // line 6
};

main() {}

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gives this error message
errmsg.cc: In method void derived::foo ():
errmsg.cc:6: type `base' not derived from type `derived'

So who cares?  What is more important is that type derived is not
derived from type base.  It wouldn't help if type base were derived
from type derived.