Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.8

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:57 pm, 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.

The bug was in gcc-3.3(.0), and it was a gcc bug and not a gtkmm bug.  gtkmm 
has compiled fine with gcc-3.3.1.

On validity, see my other post.

Chris.