Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.8

["B. Bell" <bradleyb u washington edu>]

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.

-brad