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>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Martin v. Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de
>Organization:
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis:
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Category: c++
>Class: rejects-legal
>Release: 3.0.3 (Debian testing/unstable)
>Environment:
System: Linux kosh 2.4.13-586-ext3 #1 Die Nov 6 00:09:32 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
host: i386-pc-linux-gnu
build: i386-pc-linux-gnu
target: i386-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,objc --prefix=/usr --infodir=/share/info --mandir=/share/man --enable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --disable-checking --enable-threads=posix --enable-java-gc=boehm --with-cpp-install-dir=bin --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
>Description:
Compiling the program below gives the message
operands to ?: have different types
I believe that this message is incorrect, according to 5.16/3: One is a
base class of the other, so the resulting type of the expression is A.
#include <stdio.h>
class A {
public:
A() {}
virtual void print() const {
printf("I'm A\n");
}
A& operator=(const A&) {
printf("A asignment\n"); return *this;
}
static const A& Convert(const A&x){
return x;
}
};
class B : public A {
public:
B() {}
B(const A&) {
printf("A to B conversion\n");
}
B& operator=(const B&) {
printf("B asignment\n"); return *this;
}
virtual void print() const {
printf("I'm B\n");
}
static const B& Convert(const B&x){
return x;
}
};
A& getA() {
static A *a = new A;
return *a;
}
B& getB() {
static B *b = new B;
return *b;
}
main() {
bool b = true;
getA() = b ? A() : B(); // correct
}
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