Inheritance Problem

[Brian Osman]

That was my initial reaction, but I'm not so sure. Look at 11.5 in the
standard. From my quick reading, it sounds like Carlo (and thus, the
compiler) is correct.

-Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Buck" <jbuck@synopsys.COM>
To: "Carlo Wood" <carlo@alinoe.com>
Cc: "Olaf Petzold" <opetzold@wit.regiocom.net>; <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Inheritance Problem


>
> > "protected:" means that a derived class has access to that
> > member when it is a member of the same instance.
>
> This is not correct.  In C++, access protection is based on classes,
> not instances.  The object pointed to by "this" has no special status.
>