Problem accessing private member of base class in friend class through derived object.

["Radhika Ganganna" <Radhika dot Ganganna at Oracle dot com>]

Hi,
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I have a program that has a template base class with a private data member
in it. ?It has a derived class. And both the base and derived class have a
common friend class. All these classes are part of a namespace. When I try
to access private data member of base class, through the derived class in
friend class, I get the following compilation error: ?
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Linux:/user/rgangann >gcc rad.cpp
rad.cpp: In member function `void radhika::friendclass::disp()':
rad.cpp:4: error: `char**radhika::Base<char*>::num1' is private
rad.cpp:17: error: within this context
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The code is as below: 
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namespace radhika {
template<class T> class Base { friend class friendclass; 
???? private: T* num1; };
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class Derived : protected Base <char * > { 
??? friend class friendclass; 
??? char ** num2; 
?? };
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class friendclass
{
? void disp(void)
? {
??? Derived d;
??? char**? a;
??? a = d.num1;
? }
} ;
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}; // End namespace radhika
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int main()
{
??????? return 0;
}
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I?m using gcc3.4.3. Let me know if this is an existing problem and how to
solve this problem. Also I find that when I do not have the classes in
namespace, the program works fine. 
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Regards,
Radhika
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