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From: Christopher Eltschka <celtschk@physik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: A suspect bug in Visual C++
Date: 1998/11/30
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Martin von Loewis wrote:
> 
> Francis Glassborow <francis@robinton.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > I think you have to declare friend void f() in both A and B.  Can anyone
> > quote the Standard to justify accepting the code as written?

[...]

> Otherwise, it seems that you need access to each part of the qualified
> name. Still, the VC++ message is confusing, since it is A::B in the
> original poster's example which cannot be accessed.

What about the following similar case?

class A
{
  class B
  {
    struct C {};
    friend void f() { C* p; }
  };
};

Semantically it should be the same (except that f is inline now, of
course).
But is it also the same according to access rules?


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