"David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@[...].com>  wrote in message
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>  From: "Dave Hawkes" <daveh@[...].com>
> 
> 
>  > I was working on some tests for the the boost components I've been
>  working
>  > on and came across this issue.
>  >
>  > If an object is initialised with a class that is a sub class of another
a
>  > compiler error results, though I'm not sure if this is a specific
problem
>  > with VC6:
> 
>  Why don't you find out? MinGW and Cygwin are free...
> 
As I suspected it looks like a VC6 problem as it compiles fine with gcc.
Looking at the MS docs for error C2275 I can't see how it would apply in
this situation either.
Have you come across this issue before? If not or there's no known
workaround, I'm not sure if it's worth attempting any code rearrangements to
work around this as not many people will probably come across it.

Dave Hawkes







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