Is this a C++ bug?

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1 total messages Started by keith Fri, 07 Mar 1986 20:11

#76

Author: keith
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1986 20:11

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A member of a const argument cannot be used as a const argument in a
function call:

class Foo { int i; };

class Bar {
	Foo foo;
public:
	void g(const Foo&);
	void f(const Bar& b)	{ g(b.foo); }	// gets error
};

"constbug.c", line 7: error: address of member Bar::foo of const Bar 

Is this a bug in C++ Release 1.0 or a "feature"?

Incidentally, you can get around this with an explicit cast:

	{ g(((Bar*)&b)->foo); }

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	Keith Gorlen
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	Division of Computer Research and Technology
	National Institutes of Health
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