------- Comment #6 from nathan at codesourcery dot com 2010-07-05 10:56 ------- Subject: Re: Virtual inheritence with covariant return type confuses GCC
Jason, > Reverting that patch fixes the problem and doesn't break any of the existing > covariant tests. Nathan, I couldn't figure out what the comment you added was > talking about; I don't suppose you have any idea after all these years? the patch email is at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg02157.html and I see you and I discussed the patch then too, and it seems you took some convincing then too :) Does that email thread help, or would you like me to dig deeper? nathan -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43120
