Re: [Libmesh-devel] Make compiler warn about hiding base class member variables

[John P. <jwp...@gm...>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Paul T. Bauman <ptb...@gm...> wrote:
> I don't think such a warning exists. I remember posting something to this
> list (maybe 2 years ago? buried in a somewhat unrelated thready I think)
> about this. Apparently this is explicitly allowed by the standard.

Definitely allowed by the standard, but that's why they have stuff
like -Weffc++, to warn you about code that's potentially bug-inducing
but technically standard-conforming.

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John