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From: schmidt%blanche.ics.uci.edu@ORION.CF.UCI.EDU ("Douglas C. Schmidt")
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Subject: g++ 1.27 allows invalid operation on derived classes
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Date: 24 Nov 88 00:27:24 GMT
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Hi,

   I believe the following is illegal in C++.  The AT&T compiler
complains that:

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CC  test.C:
"test.C", line 14: error:  foo::foo() is from a private base class
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which makes sense.  However, g++ 1.27 accepts this without complaint.

Here's the code:

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#include <stream.h>

class foo {
public:
   foo () { ; }
};

class bar : foo {
public:
};

main () {
   bar b;
}
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thanks,

Doug