🚀 go-pugleaf

Randy Smith writes:

> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>     A a;
>     B &b = static_cast<B&>(a);
> }

>   does *not* produce any error messages, where I believe that it
>   should.

That's right.

>   This looks like a bug to me, but I would also welcome someone
>   explaining to me why it isn't.

This is a bug, indeed, but it is a bug in g++ frontend, not in gcc, so
it should have been submitted to bug-g++.  Anyway, you need not bother
submitting it again, because the current development snapshot does
produce an error message, so the bug should be fixed when gcc/g++
2.8.0 is released.  It should produce the following error message:

test.cc: In function `int main(int, char **)':
test.cc:23: cannot convert type `A' to type `B &'

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Alexandre Oliva
mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil