From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: covariant return types
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:43:32 -0400
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Dietmar Kuehl wrote:

> This code does, of course, not compile! But the problem is not that
> covariant return types are not implemented but rather that there are
> two semicolon missing in this code. I don't know what version of gcc
> the current djgpp is based on but gcc support covariant returns since
> quite a while (I think covariant returns where in prior to gcc-2.7.2). Thus,
> I would expect that it does support this stuff. However, it apparently has
> problems in more complex cases:
>
>   class foo { virtual foo* clone(); };
>   class bar { virtual bar* clone(); };
>   class foobar: virtual foo, virtual bar { foobar* clone(); };
> This does not zet work.

    Have you tried it in v2.95?

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