Problem with virtual inheritance

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 06:09:19PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> 
> > I cannot read from the standard (The C++ programming language by Bjarne
> > Stroustrup, third edition) whether it's my code that's wrong, or the
> > compiler.
> 
> [I don't have the book here, right now, but I can't imagine that this
> is not explained].
> 
> Please re-read the section on virtual inheritance, and look for
> explanations of constructor calls. Constructors of virtual bases are
> called directly from the most derived class; ctor-initialisers in base
> classes are not executed. 

Ok, that explains it !   It even answers another question I had (but didn't
ask).

My apologies for bothering this list with my misunderstandings of the language.

...
> If you can't find it in the book, please discuss this on
> comp.lang.c++.moderated. If you then still think there is a book in
> the compiler, feel free to resubmit your report.

Just re-reading section 15.2.4.1 for the fifth time, I saw that it has
an explanation of exactly this issue, along with a nice example.
I should buy some glasses I guess.

Anyway, thanks for the quick reply,
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