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Regarding inheritance from empty classes,
Given
  class A { /* empty */ };
  class B : A { int stuff; }
The language definition requires sizeof(A) > 0 but it does not
require sizeof(B) > sizeof(int).  Arguably, a compiler that does
is just broken.

I often want to declare an empty class just to define
enums and static functions for use by a family of classes; as it is,
I must not derive my other classes from it, and must use name
qualification everywhere; and all the members must be public.

Are there any compiler vendors reading this whose compiler is not broken
in this way?

Nathan Myers
myersn@roguewave.com