lijewski@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski) (09/19/89)
The following illustrates what I believe is a bug. It seems to me that in the line 'X b = a;', 'a' should be implicitly converted to an 'X', which should then initialize 'b'. Script started on Mon Sep 18 14:45:46 1989 robbie(1)->cat a.cc class X { protected: int i; }; class XX : public X {}; main(void) { XX a; X b = a; } robbie(2)->g++ -v a.cc g++ version 1.36.0- /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -+ -v -I/usr/local/include/g++-include -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUG__ -D__GNUC__ -D__cplusplus -Dunix -Di386 -Dsun386 -Dsun -D__unix__ -D__i386__ -D__sun386__ -D__sun__ a.cc /tmp/cca02845.cpp GNU CPP version 1.35.96 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cc1plus /tmp/cca02845.cpp -quiet -dumpbase a.cc -noreg -version -o /tmp/cca02845.s GNU C++ version 1.36.0- (80386, Sun syntax) compiled by GNU C version 1.35.96. default target switches: -m80387 a.cc: In function int main (): a.cc:14: invalid initializer robbie(3)->exit script done on Mon Sep 18 14:46:32 1989 -- Mike Lijewski (H)607/277-7623 (W)607/255-0539 (desk)607/255-2960 Cornell National Supercomputer Facility ARPA: mjlx@cornellf.tn.cornell.edu BITNET: mjlx@cornellf.bitnet SMAIL: 1122 Ellis Hollow Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850