Weird behaviour with templates, virtual inheritance and overloaded methods

From:
Lars Hillebrand <lars.hillebrand@imp.uni-erlangen.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:47:02 +0100
Message-ID:
<5pdmtnFqjpq7U1@mid.dfncis.de>
Hello,
i discovered a weird behaviour if i use templates together with virtual
inheritance and method over. I managed to reproduce my problem with a
small example:

// *********** <code example> **********
template<typename T> class TypedInterface
{
public:
     virtual void TestFunction( T * ) = 0;
};

template<typename T> class TypedInterfaceImplementation :
     public TypedInterface<T>
{
public:
     void TestFunction( T * ) { };
};

template<typename T> class Test :
     public TypedInterfaceImplementation< T >
{
public:
     void TestFunction( T , T ) { };
};

void testme()
{
     Test< float > TestObject;

     // Call to Test::TestFunction, OK:
     TestObject.TestFunction( 1.0, 1.0 );

     float fOne = 1.0;

     // Call to TypedInterfaceImplementation::TestFunction results in an
error:
     // error C2660: 'Test<T>::TestFunction': function does not take 1
parameters
     TestObject.TestFunction( &fOne );
}
// *********** </code example> **********

The method 'TypedInterfaceImplementation::TestFunction' doesn't seem to
belong to the interface of class 'Test', but it should be available
because i only use public inheritance. The method
'Test<T>::TestFunction( T , T )' should just overload the virtual
method, not overwrite it!
If i rename 'Test<T>::TestFunction( T , T ) { };' so it is not
overloaded anymore, the error is gone. But i would realy like to
overload it.

Am i doing something wrong?

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (i have to :-( ), Version 8.0.50727.42, no
service-pack.

Thanks in advance for all answers!

Lars

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