GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-05-11)

[Mark Mitchell]

Jason Merrill wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> PR 30252: Wrong code generation, perhaps due to the C++ front end's
>> representation for base classes.  Jason, are you actively investigating
>> this one?
> 
> I haven't been; I've been working on the forced unwind stuff, and
> looking at the rvalue refs patch.  If you want I can work on this first,
> but I doubt that the patch would be safe enough for the release branch.

Yes, that's a good point.

> Also, has someone actually verified that this is something that would be
> fixed by the bases-as-fields work?

No, I don't think we know.  There's speculation in the PR trail, but
that's it.  I'd appreciate it if you were able to investigate further,
but I think I'd best just accept that this will not be fixed for 4.2.0.

Thanks,

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