Re: templates and inheritance

[André Pönitz]

Greg Bacon <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following small example fails on both g++ and MSVC++ 6.0.  Is this a
> compiler bug or a bug in my understanding of the semantics?

I fear the latter.

>     class C: public B<T> {
>       public:
>         C() { cout << "C::C called\n"; }
>     };

My interpretation:
Since you do not provide an operator=() for C, the compiler will generate
one automatically, consequently hiding the ones from B.

Andre'

PS: I have not yet encountered a situation where a _virtual_ operator=
makes sense. This does, of course, not mean anything....

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