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From: peter@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Peter Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: problems with cfront 2.0 when self compiled
Keywords: cfront 2.0, bug
Message-ID: <1218@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 89 15:42:13 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 37

// I sent this out some time ago but I am not sure it ever made it
// beyond the local net... So, here goes again, sorry, if you've seen
// this already.


// I've recently built 2.0 with my old 1.2.1 cfront. I proceeded to have
// the new compiler compile itself. This selfcompiled 2.0 behaves differently
// then the 1.2.1 compiled 2.0.

// Would some kind soul let me know whether they get an internal compiler
// error when trying to compile the program attached below?
// Notice that I only have an internal compiler error when I use the 2.0
// built with 2.0, NOT when I use the 2.0 built with 1.2.1

// I want to know whether this is a problem specific to my porting it on
// the particular platform I am using.

// Thank you for your help!
// Peter
//
// peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu

class base{
private:
   int a;
public:
   int& bar() const;
};

class derived : private base{   // this is line 8
public:
   base::bar;   // the syntax is correct, isn't it?
};

// CC  /tmp/test.C:
// "/tmp/test.C", line 8: internal <<AT&T C++ Translator 2.0 06/30/89>> error:
// bus error (or something nasty like that)