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From: petergo@microsoft.UUCP (Peter GOLDE)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Faulty Ambiguity Detection with Virtual Bases
Message-ID: <58737@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 18:29:01 GMT
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Reply-To: petergo@microsoft.UUCP (Peter GOLDE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>What you say is true, but I claim this is a rationalization for a compiler
>error, not an explanation as to why the code itself is wrong.  (Perhaps the
>code is wrong, but I'd like to see a reference to the ARM where it says
>it's wrong.)  

p. 235: To avoid ambiguous function definitions, all redefinitions
of a virtual function from a virtual base must occur on a single
path through the inheritance structure.

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Peter Golde                         petergo%microsoft@uunet.uu.net 
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