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Friend functions
- From: David Sveningsson <ext at sidvind dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:22:07 +0200
- Subject: Friend functions
Hi, the following code compiles with GCC 4.0.1 and VC2005 but not GCC 4.1.1.
class Foo {
friend void friend_func();
public:
virtual void func();
};
void Foo::func(){
friend_func();
}
It fails with '"friend_func" was not declared in this scope'. By also
declaring friend_func outside of class Foo it compiles on all platforms
but what I wonder is why this changed from GCC 4.0.x and GCC 4.1.x. I
guess it's intentionally and not a bug.
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