Tyler Earman <rem.intellegare@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a question regarding inheritance in C++ on GCC. Now I've asked > this question in the past but I'd like to expound on it a little so we > can have a less hackish approach to this system. I know GCC follows the > C++98 standard very well and its the standard that's at fault for this > little idiom, but I'd like to override it if possible. > > Basically when a class inherits another class, specifically with > templates I believe, some of the methods within the first inherited > class become unaccessible without the "this->" operator (or a "using" > construct; the code is bellow). > > Now I know the better way of working this is to use multiple inheritance > with virtual interfaces, but if possible I'd like to break the C++ > standard right here for a moment, and enable GCC to compile the code > without complaining about this particular ABI. > > Is there a way to do this? I don't think -fpermissive works, but would > one of the older standards? There is no way to do this, and it would probably not be a good idea, for exactly the reasons that the C++ standards committee designed two-phase name lookup in the first place. Ian