[Bug c++/33470] Reassignment of a reference to a polymorphic class fails at runtime

[bangerth at dealii dot org]

------- Comment #4 from bangerth at dealii dot org  2007-09-18 18:48 -------
To be quite clear: you can re-associate references (unlike pointers), so
when you do Ainst = Cinst, you copy the A-part of Cinst, but you still have
a 'B' whose 'A' component has just been overwritten.

W.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33470