Invalid operand 'unknown type' on pure virtual methods

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  7, 2000, "Emmanuel Millon" <emmanuel.millon@voila.fr> wrote:

> class A { public: virtual void Test() = 0; };

> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>      A *a1,*a2;
[snip]
>      bool test = a1->Test==a2->Test; // I'm getting the error here!!!

Yup, this construct is ill-formed.  The only way to form a pointer to
member is by applying `&' to a qualified name, for example,
`&A::Test'.  In any case, the result of the comparison would always be
true.

> Is there a special flag to disable this error?

Nope.

> (runs on CodeWarrior, Visual C++...)

Time to submit bug reports to their maintainers :-)

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