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From: gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Cornell V1.2 Bug Report (3/5)
Message-ID: <911@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 10:22:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.911
Posted: Thu May  7 10:22:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 09:37:35 EDT
Reply-To: gdykes@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Gene Dykes)
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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/*
 * In this example, the code compiles correctly.
 * If the two lines that are commented out are de-commented,
 * the compiler states that I am passing a bad argument to my_func -
 * "example.c", line 17: error: bad argument list for overloaded my_func()
 */

// overload my_func ;
// int my_func (int) ;

int my_func (char *[]) ;

main()
    {
    char *a[3] ;
    my_func (a) ;
    }

/*
 * This certainly doesn't seem reasonable to me...
 * If it was a good argument list to a non-overloaded function,
 * why is it a bad argument list to an overloaded one?
 *
 * The following is an additional example using implicit overloading
 */

// This example compiles okay...

class
c_wm
    {
//  c_wm () ;
    c_wm(char *[]) ;
    } ;


class
c_select
    {
    void	member() ;
    char	*arg[2] ;
    c_wm	*w_manager ;
    } ;

void
c_select::member ()
    {
    w_manager = new c_wm(arg) ;
    }

/**
But if the additional constructor is not commented out, it won't compile
because it claims the original constructor was called with bad arguments.
**/
-- 
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