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Subject: Reference casting bug in g++-1.36.2-jan7
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Date: 11 Jan 90 16:03:37 GMT
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There seems to be a problem with casting references into
derived types.  The following program elicits the error message:

  bug.C:5: request for member `i' in something not a class, structure or union

This worked in g++-1.36.2-dec21.  Let me know if this bug is
reproducable, so I can tell if there is some problem with the
way I compiled the compiler.

---------------- cut here ----------------
class Base {};

class Derived : public Base {
  int i;
  void f(Base& a) {return ((Derived&)a).i;}
};
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David Fox
fox@allegra.att.com