C++: INHERITED_VALUE_BINDING_P

[Mark Mitchell]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 06:09, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   In the C++ front-end, the macro INHERITED_VALUE_BINDING_P is used to
> distinguish a class-scope declaration that is inherited (from a base
> class) from regular ones.  I believe that is a carry-over from old ARM
> scope rules.  I think we could safely get rid of it because standard
> scope notions make no room for the idea of inherited declaration:
> Instead, each base class retains its scope and declarations in derived
> class hide declarations in base classes.

IIRC, this is not quite true.  In particular, this code:

struct A {
  struct B {};
};

struct C : public A {
  void B();
};

struct C::B b;

is legal.  That's the case where INHERITED_VALUE_BINDING_P is used, I
think.

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