Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] coding style issues

[Stefan Seefeld <seefeld sympatico ca>]

Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> GCC 2.95 doesn't support using declarations at class scope if the name
> is subsequently overloaded, so hidden functions must be redefined.
> RedHat's GCC 2.96 does support such using decls, but FreeBSD's 2.95.4
> doesn't, and AFAIK Debian's 2.95.4 doesn't either.
> Should libxml++ work with GCC 2.95 ?

I'm puzzled, I just tried to compile this chunk with a home-built 2.95.3:

----
class A
{
protected:
  void foobar();
};

class B : public A
{
public:
  using A::foobar;
};
----

with 'gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)'

and it worked fine.

Stefan