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From: bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Is this a C++ bug?
Message-ID: <5097@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 15:00:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  9 15:00:44 1986
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> From: keith@cecil.UUCP (keith gorlen)
> Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
> Subject: Is this a C++ bug?
> Organization: NIH-CSL, Bethesda, MD
> 
> A member of a const argument cannot be used as a const argument in a
> function call:
> 
> class Foo { int i; };
> 
> class Bar {
> 	Foo foo;
> public:
> 	void g(const Foo&);
> 	void f(const Bar& b)	{ g(b.foo); }	// gets error
> };
> 
> "constbug.c", line 7: error: address of member Bar::foo of const Bar 
> 
> Is this a bug in C++ Release 1.0 or a "feature"?

It is a 1.0 bug (not a language bug).
Sorry.
My cfront compiles it without a hickup.