Hello, This might answer to your question : "A name nominated by a friend declaration shall be accessible in the scope of the class containing the friend declaration." (ISO C++ standard 11.4.7) Regards, PH --- Ralph Gauges <ralph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed gcc4 (20050130) on some of my > machines and all of the sudden I can not compile > some code that worked fine with gcc 3.3 (20030304). > Suddenly if a declare a friend function in some > class that is a protected member function in another > class gcc4 complains that the function is protected > in this context. This is actually correct, but I > could not find any documentation that this was not > allowed in C++. Am I doing something wrong, or is > this a bug since it worked with gcc3? > > Ralph > > Here is some sample code that compiles on gcc 3.3 > and fails on gcc 4.0 > > class A{ > Â Â Â protected: > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â void test(){}; > }; > > class B{ > Â Â Â public: > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â friend void A::test(); > }; > Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/