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I'm having a problems compiling (with gcc-2.0) a template class which  
is privately inherited from an outside vendor's (Rogue Wave (RW))  
List template class.  I am wrapping the RW class with my own class  
functions that simply invoke the RW classes through private  
inheritance.  We are doing this to centralize references to the RW  
classes.

All of my functions compile (using gcc 2.0), link, and successfully  
execute except for the copy constructor and the assignment operator.   
These two functions are the only functions to take a const ref to my  
List class as a parameter.  This is an excerpt from the code:

template <class Item>				// WORKS!!
List<Item>::List(const Item& FirstItem)
{
        RWTValDlist<Item>::RWTValDlist();
        RWTValDlist<Item>::prepend(FirstItem);
}

template <class Item>
List<Item>::List(const List<Item>& CopyList)
{
        RWTValDlist<Item>::RWTValDlist(CopyList); // ERROR #1!
        ListIndX = -1;
}

template <class Item>
List<Item>&
List<Item>::operator=(const List<Item>& CopyList)
{
	return RWTValDlist<Item>::operator=(CopyList); // ERROR #2!
}


I get the following errors:

/usr/test/grvt/r10/work/include/List.C: In method `List<int>::List  
(const class List<int>&)':
/usr/test/grvt/r10/work/include/List.C:69: too many arguments for  
constructor `RWTValDlist'
/usr/test/grvt/r10/work/include/List.C: In method `class List<int>&  
List<int>::operator = (const class List<int>&)':
/usr/test/grvt/r10/work/include/List.C:87: type `List<int>' is  
derived from private `RWTSemDlist<int ,RWDirect<int>>'
/usr/test/grvt/r10/work/include/List.C:87: bad argument 0 for  
function `List<int>::List (const class List<int>&)' (type was class  
RWTSemDlist<int ,RWDirect<int>>&)

I have a similar implementation for a non-template class, and the  
copy constructor works.

Does anyone know why the above does not work?

Thanks,
Diane

e-mail (schulkow@rtsg.mot.com)