tcpstream multiple inheritance bug

[Andrew Cheyne]

With the addition of the read(...) method to the Socket class (in socket.h), tcpstream now exposes an ambiguous method error when attempting to use the class directly.

 

For example (application code):

 

tpstream tcp;

 

// take care of initializing..

// ... eventually, we want to do a read of one char:

 

tcp.read(buf, 1);

 

    Since read() is defined in both Socket and std::istream, the compiler doesn't know which read() method to use, and complains (error).

 

I was able to get around this (for now), by doing:

 

std::iostream* tcpio = (std::iostream*)(&tcp);
tcpio->read(buf, 1 );

 

   which is really ugly, but works..

 

Andrew

 

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Andrew Cheyne

Senior Software Developer

GridIron Software

613.226.9445 ext. 285

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