g++ regression - or not ?

[Dirk Mueller]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> > This appears to be not a regression, since according to the standard, 
> > Foo::bar() indeed should be called: 
> On the contrary: it is a progression.  It is called now, as mandated
> by the standard, whereas it wouldn't be called in earlier versions.

Okay, thats what he said :-)

Any comment on the other part of the question ? why does gcc allow calling a 
static method with a "this" pointer ? and not even warn about it ?


Dirk