------- Additional Comments From drow at false dot org 2005-03-10 03:45 ------- Subject: Re: g++ rejects valid code with 'is inaccessible' error
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:25:03AM -0000, matthew dot whitney at gmail dot com wrote: > Now it compiles fine. Before this is closed again I'd like to understand why > it > should matter what type an unreferenced parameter is. Why shouldn't I be able > to > pass a pointer to an object of type A (completely unrelated to C) to one of > C's > methods? Thanks in advance. You could if A were completely unrelated to C. You have C deriving from B, and B deriving from A, which means that the name A binds to the base class inside C; and the base class is inaccessible, so it may not be referred to. As Andrew said, use ::A. If you want chapter and verse from the C++ standard, I can't help you, but I'm sure someone else here can. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20397
