Serious member access control bug in egcs/g++, all versions and snapshots

[Martin von Loewis]

> I have been seriously bitten by an apparent egcs/g++ bug,
> which appears to be present in all versions and snapshots
> up to the latest one I have installed (19981220).
> Basically, egcs/g++ fails to enforce member access control.

Thanks for your bug report. Please see
http://egcs.cygnus.com/c++bugs.html

I fail to see the seriousness of that bug, though. egcs accepts code
that should have been diagnosed; this is not a case where egcs rejects
valid code, or where it generates bad assembler output for valid code.
The latter ones are really serious...

Martin