Re: Errors when compiling with GCC 4.1

[Gregory John Casamento]

Richard,

--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:

....

> It should have been matching with the 'id' part of the union.
> My understanding of the language is that you should be able to assign any 
> object to a variable of type 'id' ... so I'd be inclined to call it a 
> compiler bug.
> I guess we might be able to work around it by explicitly casting the 
> NSDictionary to be an id first ... (GSIMapKey)(id)attrs ... but that's not 
> very nice.

It seems to need the *precise* type now, AFAICT.   I'm not sure it's a compiler
bug.

Hopefully, someone more familiar than I with the GCC internals can comment on
this.

Later, GJC

Gregory John Casamento 
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