Re: Inheritance from a Template class, problems accessing protected member

Here is my code:

#include <iostream>

template<typename T>
class RawPtr
{
protected:
   T* pointee_;

public:
   RawPtr() : pointee_(0) {}
   RawPtr(T* pT) : pointee_(pT) {}
};

template<typename T>
class SmartPtr : public RawPtr<T>
{
public:
         SmartPtr() : RawPtr<T>() {}
explicit SmartPtr(T* pT) : RawPtr<T>(pT)
         {
            if (pointee_ != 0)
            {
               std::cout << "SmartPtr(T* pT): pointee_ non-null." <<
std::endl;
            }
         }

};

int main()
{
   double *pDoubleRaw = new double(1.0); SmartPtr<double>
   pDouble(pDoubleRaw); return 0;
}

On Linux (g++ (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) I get the
following compilation error:

g++ testInheritanceWithTemplates.cpp
testInheritanceWithTemplates.cpp: In constructor
`SmartPtr<T>::SmartPtr(T*)':
testInheritanceWithTemplates.cpp:27: error: `pointee_' was not declared
in this scope

On Windows, this compiles fine.

Any ideas why this doesn't work on Linux? Does the C++ standard think
that this is legal?

Regards,
Liam Herron