gcc -Woverloaded-virtual

[Michael Pyne]

On Saturday 17 November 2007, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> >        -Woverloaded-virtual (C++ only)
> >            Warn when a function declaration hides virtual functions
> > from a base class. For example, in:
> >
> >                    struct A {
> >                      virtual void f();
> >                    };
> >
> >                    struct B: public A {
> >                      void f(int);
> >                    };
> >
> >            the "A" class version of "f" is hidden in "B", and code
> > like:
> >
> >                    B* b;
> >                    b->f();
> >
> >            will fail to compile.
>
> It can be very handy but there're too many false positives, e.g. if
> virtual void A::f(int) also exists. IMO too many to make this a default
> option.

If virtual void A::f(int) exists then B::f() is still hidden, so the warning 
still applies.  I honestly didn't know the function hiding issue was really 
this bad but it is.

If you want to make A::f() accessible in B you have to do something like:

struct B : public A {
  using A::f;

  void f(int) { ... }
};

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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