Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:8632 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: design AT netcom DOT com (Chris Waters) Subject: Re: protected and public base classes Message-ID: Organization: Design and Delivery References: <51frft$9qk AT miracle DOT cybernex DOT net> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 09:19:57 GMT Lines: 20 Sender: design AT netcom20 DOT netcom DOT com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp In article <51frft$9qk AT miracle DOT cybernex DOT net>, wrote: >Is there ever a case in djgpp when access to the members of protected >base classes is different from the access to members of public base >classes? Does djgpp conform to the ansi standard in this regard? To the best of my knowledge, there is no protected inheritance in C++. If there were (if there is), then I assume it would work the same as protected members: only derived classes would be aware of the inheritance and able to access the members of the protected base class. Obviously this would be different. Since there is, as yet, no ansi standard for C++, the question about djgpp's conformance is meaningless. Unless you're asking about conformance with the C standard. :) Questions about the current draft of the standard really belong in comp.std.c++ (although it might help to read a few posts there, and check out the faq and web pages first). Questions about C and C++ as implemented in gcc should be asked in gnu.gcc or gnu.g++.