Small inheritance problem.

[mihai]

I have a situation witch is like this:

// A.h
class A
{
class AA
{
};
};

// B.h
class B
{
class BB : public A::AA
{
BB();
};
};

// B.cpp
B::BB::BB() : A::AA(args)
{
}

The compiler error is: multiple definition of BB()
when I try to implement the constructor.

Have a nice day,
Mihai.

[Victor Bazarov]

mihai wrote:

I have a situation witch is like this:

// A.h
class A
{
class AA
{
};
};

// B.h
class B
{
class BB : public A::AA
{
BB();
};
};

// B.cpp
B::BB::BB() : A::AA(args)
Add 'inline' before this function.
{
}

The compiler error is: multiple definition of BB()
when I try to implement the constructor.

When you define a function in the header and include that header
in more than one translation unit, you get multiple definitions.
Instead, you should define the function in only one translation
unit or declare it 'inline'.

V

[mihai]

Thank you for your answer.
I have fixed this up. But there is another problem on MVC 6.0 it seems
that the cod does not compile, and with gcc 3.4 it works. I don't see
how this can be. There are both standard compilers, no?

[iceColdFire]

Hi,

Yes...MSVC 6.0 and gcc 3.4 are both standard compilers...how ever their
individual conformance to ISO C++ standards varies...MSVC 6.0 is 8
years old...so the compiler conformance to C++ standard dates back to
that time...maybe this particuar case was not included in affirmatives
part of standard so it gives compiler error...however gcc 3.4 follows
more latest c++ standrads and thus enables successfull compilation...

Just an issues of which standard is followed by compiler...thus use
latest compiler...GNU based gcc for *NIX and *NUX or cygwin mingw for
*dows is good...

Thanks
a.a.cpp

[Ganesh]

Isn't it class AA is private inner class of A and call to A::AA
should give compiler error ?

Thasks
Ganesh

Samee Zahur wrote:

Yes...MSVC 6.0 and gcc 3.4 are both standard compilers...how ever

their

individual conformance to ISO C++ standards varies...MSVC 6.0 is 8
years old...

Indeed, AFAIK the ISO C++ standard was published for the first at
around the same time, so it's rather a big(!) ask for MSVC 6.0 to
conform to it when even the later versions are not that good at it :(

Samee

[mihai]

Yes it is ... :)
But in my code it is not ...
This is why it compiles on gcc.

Mihai.