Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.8

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:57, B. Bell wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Chris Vine wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 29 September 2003 6:05 pm, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > 2.2.8:
> > >
> > > * Fixed "inacccessible base" build errors with gcc 3.3.2. (Bradley Bell)
> >
> > gcc-3.3.2 doesn't exist.  Is it a good idea to patch gtkmm to deal with bugs
> > in gcc snapshots, particularly as I think we have substituted
> > reinterpret_casts for valid uses of static_cast?
> 
> Can you explain why you think a static_cast should be valid here?
> It seems to me that this behavior is also present in gcc 3.3.1 [see bug
> 117494], but was reverted for a short while, presumably because the error
> message produced was unhelpful.

Firstly, sorry, I didn't realise that this was not a released gcc
version. There have been so many gcc-related bugs with so many versions
of gcc recently that I guess I got confused.

But this one made sense - it was trying to cast A to B when B inherited
privately from A. I don't know for sure, but I can imagine why that
should not work.

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Murray Cumming
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