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From: bashford@scripps.edu (Don Bashford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Multiple inheritance with virtual bases
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Date: 29 Oct 90 20:16:42 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.054455.1989@nowhere.uucp> sking@nowhere.uucp (Steven King) writes:
>    now F::E and F::D not only share a common A, but a common B as well.
> However, methods that act upon E do not know anything D or D's defintion of
> B. If, the definition of D is such that B and C are collapsed together as it
> appears that g++ is doing, then E's methods, with compiler generated offsets
> into B, are, in fact, going to munge C or D. 

Aren't you confusing classes with *instances* of classes?

Don Bashford
bashford@scripps.edu