http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44499
--- Comment #17 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-03-17
11:45:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > GCC 4.4 and 4.5 reject the example too, so I don't know when the bug was
> > fixed,
> > it's apparently not a change in 4.6 (though there were some bugs in this
> > area
> > fixed recently.)
>
> Hmm, that particular example does fail. But we've still been seeing this in
> packages such as xulrunner and openjade that are fine with 4.5, so some
> variation of the example is a new error. eg. this only fails with 4.6:
>
> struct A { int a; A (); };
> struct B : public A { };
> const B b;
Yup, that fails with 4.6, as it should. It's also rejected by EDG and Clang,
but not VC++
OK, I'll update the changes page with a variation of the note in comment 11,
but upstream should still read the standard and deal with it ;)
