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From: rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette)
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Subject: Re: G++ 1.34.2 overloaded virtual functions
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Date: 27 Apr 89 18:34:58 GMT
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Recently, arisia!wedekind@lll-winken.llnl.gov  (Jerry Wedekind) wrote:
|G++ seems to have a bug with overloaded virtual functions.  In the test case:
|
|    class A {
|    public:
|        virtual void XXX (int);
|    };
|
|    class B : public A {
|    public:
|        void XXX (int);
|        void XXX (char);
|    };
|
|It complains:
|
|    "test.h:9: conficting specification deriving virtual function 'void B::XXX (float)'

I have mentioned this to Michael T. and said that I believe it to be a bug.
Perhaps the fact that other C++ compilers/translators accept this without
error will serve as some confirmation of my view.

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