------- Additional Comments From scp at predict dot com 2005-07-06 21:47 ------- (In reply to comment #9)
> the bug is not a regression, so it has not gone into 4.0. As there seems to > be > a need for it, and the patch is small, we could probably do it. Right now 4.0 > is frozen for 4.0.1 though Nathan, 4.0.2 is certainly fine by me. I've already applied the patch locally to 4.0.0, and will continue to do so until it is folded in to 4.0.X. I just wanted to clarify that there is a need for it for any code which has a function returning a pointer to derived class instance which is then assigned to a pointer to a virtual base class of that class type. I have plenty of non-trivial code which does this which is why I discovered the problem and your 3.4.X fix. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20746
