------- Comment #36 from bangerth at dealii dot org 2007-08-28 21:40 ------- (In reply to comment #35)
> In this case, the warning is correct as Impl will be different in each > Translation Unit so X can never be the same between two of them. That's what I thought too at first, but the request is valid anyway as long as you never use the pointer to the class from anywhere except the one implementation file in which the class is defined. Never using means not even passing around the pointer, i.e. the class better not has an inline function in the header file in which the pointer is used. However, as long as the entire handling of the pointer is inside a single TU, nothing is wrong with the code. Now, whether that's good style is clearly a different matter... W. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29365
