CMatric.cc: ComplexMatrix::solve call is ambigious

[David Grundberg]

Hi,

Tried building today and I got this C++ method overloading compile 
error. This error is something new, so I thought I'd post it.

address@hidden:~/octave-patching/octaveorg$ hg tip
changeset:   10351:5150ceb4dbb4
tag:         tip
user:        Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
date:        Tue Feb 23 14:15:34 2010 +0100
summary:     base charMatrix and boolMatrix on Array<char>

address@hidden:~/octave-patching/octaveorg$

address@hidden:/scratch/octaveorgvpath$ g++ --version
g++ (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

address@hidden:/scratch/octaveorgvpath$

I've checked that I'm not out of disk quota this time.

David

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/Home/staff/davidg/octave-patching/octaveorg/liboctave/CMatrix.cc: In member 
function ‘ComplexColumnVector ComplexMatrix::solve(MatrixType&, const 
ComplexColumnVector&, octave_idx_type&, double&, void (*)(double), 
blas_trans_type) const’:
/Home/staff/davidg/octave-patching/octaveorg/liboctave/CMatrix.cc:2397: error: 
ISO C++ says that these are ambiguous, even though the worst conversion for the 
first is better than the worst conversion for the second:
/Home/staff/davidg/octave-patching/octaveorg/liboctave/CMatrix.cc:2301: note: 
candidate 1: ComplexMatrix ComplexMatrix::solve(MatrixType&, const 
ComplexMatrix&, octave_idx_type&, double&, void (*)(double), bool, 
blas_trans_type) const
/Home/staff/davidg/octave-patching/octaveorg/liboctave/CMatrix.cc:2393: note: 
candidate 2: ComplexColumnVector ComplexMatrix::solve(MatrixType&, const 
ComplexColumnVector&, octave_idx_type&, double&, void (*)(double), 
blas_trans_type) const
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