Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile?

From:
"Paul" <pchrist<nospam>or@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:42:52 -0000
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"Paavo Helde" <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> wrote in message
news:Xns9FCF5F1311FE9myfirstnameosapriee@216.196.109.131...

Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote in
news:d86e4d32-6781-4cf9-a85a-b806c4325764@r5g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:

On Jan 2, 1:36 pm, Paavo Helde <myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote:

You could try to make this 'public virtual Observer'.


Thank you, yes I overlooked this. Although this does not help the
compile problem.


Strange, compiles fine with my MSVC2010 and gcc (though MSVC issues a
strange warning):

x64: tmp>cat test2.cpp

struct Observer
{
 virtual void Notify() = 0;
};

struct ObserverImp : public virtual Observer
{
 void Notify() {}
};

struct Shape : public virtual Observer
{
};

struct Square : public Shape, public ObserverImp
{
};

Shape* ShapeFactory()
{
 return new Square;
}

int main() {
 Square sq;
 sq.Notify();
}

x64: tmp>g++ test2.cpp -Wall
x64: tmp>g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/specs
Configured with: /managed/gcc-build/final-v3-bootstrap/gcc-3.4.4-
999/configure --verbose --program-suffix=-3 --prefix=/usr --exec-
prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --
libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --
enable-languages=c,ada,c++,d,f77,pascal,java,objc --enable-nls --without-
included-gettext --enable-version-s
pecific-runtime-libs --without-x --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --
with-system-zlib --enable-interpreter --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-
threads=posix --enable-java-gc=boehm --d
isable-win32-registry --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-hash-
synchronization --enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)


Yes this compiles fine for me too. There is another thread here about the
MSVC warning..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469508/visual-studio-compiler-warning-c4250-class1-inherits-class2member-via-d

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