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From: comeau@utoday.UUCP (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Private base class
Message-ID: <1144@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 16:58:15 GMT
References: <1533@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: comeau@.UUCP (Greg Comeau)
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In article <1533@castle.ed.ac.uk> sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (S. Manoharan) writes:
>class base { public: int a; void f() {} };
>class derived: base { public: base::a; base::f; };
>void main() { derived x; x.a = 0; x.f(); }
>Compiling cfront version 1.2.1 gives "error: a is from private base class",
>...Where have I gone wrong then? Could someone help me?
>

I think you're stuck with a 1.2.1 nuance.

Your code should work fine with a 2.0 cfront.
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