Re: Virtual private and public overloaded method in sub classes

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 27 May 2010 12:54:16 -0400
Message-ID:
<htm83r$1md$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 5/27/2010 11:54 AM, earthwormgaz wrote:

On 27 May, 16:47, Victor Bazarov<v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

[in response to "SunCC is wrong"]
In what sense? In which part?


In issuing the warning.


No, it's not wrong. The compilers are free to issue any warnings they
want. There are some situations when they *must* issue a diagnostic, as
required by the Standard, but there is no requirement *not to* issue a
diagnostic.

FWIW, the compiler is free to issue a warning in the line of, "the
compilation of your code proceeded successfully". It's just a
diagnostic message, just like a doctor's telling you "you're healthy".

class Appender;

class Catagory {
public:
   virtual bool ownsAppender(Appender* appender);
private:
   virtual bool ownsAppender(Appender* appender, int& i2) throw();

};

class FixedContextCategory : public Category {
public:
   virtual bool ownsAppender(Appender* appender);

};

SunCC will complain that

  virtual bool Catagory::ownsAppender(Appender* appender, int& i2)
throw();

... is hidden by ...

  virtual bool FixedContextCategory::ownsAppender(Appender* appender);

Full text of the warning ...

Compiling Libs/log4cpp/FixedContextCategory.cpp
"./Libs/log4cpp/log4cpp/FixedContextCategory.hh", line 171: Warning:
log4cpp::FixedContextCategory::ownsAppender hides the virtual function
log4cpp::Category::ownsAppender(log4cpp::Appender*,
__rwstd::__rb_tree<log4cpp::Appender*,
std::pair<log4cpp::Appender*const, bool>,
__rwstd::__select1st<std::pair<log4cpp::Appender*const, bool>,
log4cpp::Appender*>, std::less<log4cpp::Appender*>,
std::allocator<std::pair<log4cpp::Appender*const, bool>>>::iterator&).
1 Warning(s) detected.


SunCC doesn't *complain* per se. It is *warning* you. If you ever
think of trying to call the hidden function while in a scope that would
resolve to 'FixedContextCategory' member, you might have a problem. But
until you do, there is no problem, there is no error, the diagnostic is
totally voluntary (not required by the Standard) on SunCC's part.

V
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