Possible parser bug in 2.96, 3.0.x and 3.1?

[Julian Thomas]

I'm in the process of porting some code which has primarily been developed 
using MSVC++ 6.0.  I came across what looks like a possible parser bug which 
seems to be present in GCC 2.96, 3.0.4 and 3.1.  I've distilled the problem 
down to the following test case.

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#include <iostream>

class sBase
{
public:
	sBase(int a=0) : ma(a) {}
	int geta() { return ma; }
private:
	int ma;
};

class sInherit : public sBase
{
public:
  sInherit(const sBase& a, int b) : sBase(a), mb(0) {}
  int getb() { return mb; }
private:
  int mb;
};

// this works
static sInherit MyThing1(sBase(0), 3);

// as does this
static sInherit MyThing2 = sInherit(sBase(), 3);

// this doesn't
static sInherit MyThing3(sBase(), 3);

int main(void)
{
  std::cout << "Thing a:" << MyThing1.geta() << "\n";
  std::cout << "Thing b:" << MyThing1.getb() << "\n";

  std::cout << "Thing a:" << MyThing2.geta() << "\n";
  std::cout << "Thing b:" << MyThing2.getb() << "\n";

  std::cout << "Thing a:" << MyThing3.geta() << "\n";
  std::cout << "Thing b:" << MyThing3.getb() << "\n";
}
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I've confirmed that it compiles correctly with both MSVC++ 6.0 and Intel C++ 
6.0 (and a few others too).

Any ideas, quick fixes or shiny distractions that might help me to ignore the 
problem?

Julian Thomas

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