Re: How do I make the members of a parent class visible without using the "this" pointer?
On Mar 10, 12:18 am, peteymi...@hotmail.com wrote:
It used to be that all the members (except those declared private) of
a parent class were visible to its descendants as if they had been
declared within the descendant class itself. Now some brain-surgeon
has changed the standard so that you have to add the "this" pointer,
requiring a load of extra, redundant typing for C++ code that uses
inheritance. This is fine if you are starting from scratch, but what
if you have legacy code that needs to be compiled and you don't feel
like picking through the code to add the "this" pointer to every
single inherited member? Is there any way I can tell g++ to use the
old rules (without reverting to an older version)?
What?
Comeau compiles the following fine.
http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout/
I suspect your g++ does as well.
class base
{
public:
int base_member;
};
derived : public base
{
public:
void foo()
{
base_member = 1;
}
};
Can you post a complete, compilable example? (Or an example you claim
should compile?)
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