egcs-980517 bug report

[Brendan Kehoe]

dcb@pncl.co.uk (David C Binderman) writes:

> Hello there,
> 
> I think the following C++ code should not compile
> 
> // this should fail
> 
> union U {
> 	U();
> 	int & ri;
> };

You actually can; from $9.5 of the draft standard:


  A union  can  have  member functions  (including  constructors  and
  destructors), but not virtual functions. 

If you try to declare a method virtual, g++ will give an error.

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