deriving template classes: gcc 3.4 complains

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Thu Oct 2 03:00:00 GMT 2003


On Oct 1, 2003, at 19:48, George Garvey wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:51:58PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html
>
> Quoting from the above document, is this a typo:
>
> The cast-as-lvalue extension has been removed. In particular, code 
> like this:
>
>         int i;
>         (char)a = 5;
>
>
> is no longer accepted.
>

No it is not, the extension causes too many problems than the benefits 
you get from it.
Any way why do you think it is a typo?

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



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