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From: tom@tnosoes.UUCP (Tom Vijlbrief)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Is this a compiler bug ?
Keywords: G++
Message-ID: <435@tnosoes.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 15:08:34 GMT
Organization: TNO Institute for Perception, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
Lines: 37

When compiling a file of the OOPS package, G++ (1.32) produced an
errormessage for the following function:

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void Time::printOn(ostream& strm)
{
        register unsigned hh = hour();
#if 1
        ((Date)*this).printOn(strm);	// Error !
#else
        ((Date *)this)->printOn(strm);	// No Error !
#endif
        strm << form(" %d:%02d:%02d ",
                (hh <= 12) ? hh : hh-12,
                minute(),
                second());
        if (hh < 12) strm << "am";
        else strm << "pm";
}
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In function void Time::printOn (struct ostream &):
Time.c:258: both constructor and type conversion operator apply
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The alternative does not produce an error.

Are these two equivalent and is this a compiler bug ?

Tom
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