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Ambiguous base class
- From: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:11:13 -0700
- Subject: Ambiguous base class
gcc rejects the following snippet:
struct A { int x; };
struct B1 : public A { };
struct B2 : public A { };
struct D : public B1, public B2 { };
int f(D d) {
#ifdef 1
return d.B1::A::x;
#else
return d.B1::x;
#endif
}
As the #ifdef suggests, what gcc dislikes is the
B1::A::x part. It accepts B1::x, but says that
B1::A::x is ambiguous.
It's always possible that I've missed something
in the Standard, but this seems wrong. As far as
I can tell from my cursory reading of 3.4.3,
B1::A::x ought to be fine: it should look up A
in B1's scope, and x in B1::A's scope.
So, the usual two questions:
(1) Is there text in the standard that says my
reading is wrong? Is there an argument that gcc's
behavior is right?
(2) If the answer to #1 is 'no': is this a known
bug?
--Matt