Path: utzoo!yunexus!telly!attcan!uunet!ginosko!sacco
From: sacco@eileen.samsung.com (Joseph E. Sacco)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: bug caused by multiple inheritance
Summary: bug dependent upon ordering of parent specification
Message-ID: <49@eileen.samsung.com>
Date: 7 Jun 89 02:00:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: eileen.49
References: <8906051539.AA18913@lri.lri.fr>
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Mitchell and Gauthier Associates
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In article <8906051539.AA18913@lri.lri.fr>, chatty%FRLRI61.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
> 
> In the following example, a class B derives from a class A, and a class D derive
> from class B and another class C. It seems that the presence of D confuses g++ 1
> when managing simple inheritance of B from A : inherited members are called with
> a wrong 'this' address.
> 

Another aspect of the bug is that not only does its existence depend upon
the declaration of D but also upon the order in which the parents of D are
specified. If that order is reversed the two values of "this" are seen to
be identical. Hmmmm ....................! What gives ?


						JOE