OK for trunk?
-- >8 --
Users are confused about what this warning means, so add a suggested
solution to the documentation.
gcc/ChangeLog:
* doc/invoke.texi (C++ Dialect Options): Suggest adding a
using-declaration to unhide functions.
---
gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 26de582e41e..6404ed5c4ff 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -4282,6 +4282,10 @@ b->f();
@noindent
fails to compile.
+In cases where the different signatures are not an accident, the
+simplest solution is to add a using-declaration to the derived class
+to un-hide the base function, e.g. add @code{using A::f;} to @code{B}.
+
The optional level suffix controls the behavior when all the
declarations in the derived class override virtual functions in the
base class, even if not all of the base functions are overridden:
--
2.39.1
