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The ARM states that it is illegal to declare a function in a 
derived class that differs from a virtual in a parent class by 
only its return type.  I.e.

class A
{
        virtual int foo();
}

class B1 : public A
{
        char * foo(); // Illegal
}


Has the standard changed with respect to this?  IBM VisualAge C++ 
now allows this (it's an EXTREMELY useful thing to be able to do),
but the SGI compiler on which I'm working doesn't.

Jim Garrison
jhg@acm.org
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