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From: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: GNU bug?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 21:35:01 GMT
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I'm running Gnu C++ version 1.37, and either I'm misunderstanding something
or I have a compiler bug.  In short, the compiler doesn't seem to let me
use access control specifiers on operators.  That is, if I have

class A {
public:
	int operator++();
};

class B : private A {
public:
	A::operator++;
};

The compiler complains with the curious message that an operator name is
missing on the line ``A::op...'' in class B.  My reading of Ellis and
Stroustrup is that this should be legal.  Which is wrong, me or GNU?