From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: parameter passing
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 13:25:39 -0800
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Ofer Corshid wrote:

> when I try find(t) the compiler, of course, complains about
> the type mismatch, but when I try find(*t) the compiler
> gives a linking error message (see my previous previous
> message) and when I run symify it points to ths line which
> contains this operation (find(*t))!!!!

Uh, because they're the wrong types, so if you start coercing them into
one another things are going to go wrong.

If the prototype for your function is 

    T *X::find(const H &) const;

then you'll have to pass it an object of type H, or one derived from
type H.

This is standard C++, by the way, and has nothing to do with DJGPP.

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