Re: Compilation error: auto_ptr and private class

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:24 PM, John Swensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Maybe this is just shooting in the dark, but I think the example you gave in 
> the forum thread is a little different than what is actually going on.  Try 
> this instead (I am installing the MSVC++ student edition right now so I can 
> test this with you).
>
> class A
> {
> private:
>  class private_one
>  {
>  public:
>    ~private_one(void) {}
>  };
>
>  class private_two : public private_one
>  {
>  public:
>    ~private_two(void){}
>  };
>
> public:
>  void fun(void);
> };
>
> void A:fun(void)
> {
>  auto_ptr<private_two> two (new private_two ());
> }
>
>
> The problem may be that one private class is the base class for another 
> private class?  Maybe they need to be "friend" declaration between the 
> private base class and private derived class (and maybe declared as 
> "protected")?  Like I said, I am just shooting in the dark right now, since I 
> don't have a working MSVC++ yet.
>
> John Swensen

I can't test at the moment, no access to Windows at work. However, I
came up with
the following piece of code that hopefully mimic what's happening in
idx-vector.cc. I'll
try it at home asap.

Michael.

test.cc
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