2008/6/3 Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > gcc and solaris are differing on the rules about casting to private bases. > I'm not certain if it's tecnically incorrect but a bit of googling strongly > suggests that we should not write code that depends on this, we will > probably have trouble with other compilers.
I am pretty sure that it is not valid to attempt to cast to a private base class (which makes sense since the relationship is supposed to be, well, private). It is a while since I have done any C++ but I seem to recall that Microsoft tightened up VS 2005 so that it rejected this. RG
