From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@CS.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 01:04:56 -0700
Subject: [jody@algorithmics.com: Re: g++ (2.5.8) extension for method invocation]
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From: jody@algorithmics.com (Jody Goldberg)
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Subject: Re: g++ (2.5.8) extension for method invocation
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In gnu.g++.help you write:


>gcc allows to invoke methods through  pointers using the '.' operator.
>As far as I know this  is an undocumented feature  that I want to use.
>I'd like to know why the  same freedom is  not allowed for data member
>acesses and    how overloading of   operator  '->' interact  with that
>feature  (in particular  is the  overloaded version   of operator '->'
>called when I use operatore '.' on a pointer?)
>Is this extension there to stay in gcc?

No. It was a bug introduced in 2.5 that has been removed for 2.6.

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