On Wednesday, 15 de December de 2010 11:37:51 John Layt wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2010 19:53:50 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > I'm not sure we really already care about keeping BC on Windows. > > Windows guys: do we ? > > Maybe not yet and we may be able to change stuff _now_, but once it kicks in > on Windows we don't want to have potential timebombs waiting to go off :-) > > > A private function cannot be called by anybody outside the class, it can > > only be called from within the class, so private symbols should not make > > it into any user of the class, so removing private functions should be > > ok. > > That was always my assumption. Which also makes me confused as to why > promoting from private to public would break BIC, why should any change in a > formerly private symbol break BIC when it is essentially deleting a private > symbol and adding a new public one? Unless that's another MSVC 'feature' > we're working around?
Private functions *can* be called by friends and by inline functions.
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