[cfe-dev] Friend functionality

John McCall rjmccall at apple.com
Fri Jul 31 19:49:33 PDT 2009


Eli Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Anis Ahmad<anis.ahmad.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wondering if anybody's working on implementing section 11.4 of
>> the spec (Friend functionality)?  The C++ support page is still red
>> across the boards for that section.
>>     
>
> I guess it's worth noting that access checking is turned off by
> default, so code that uses "friend" declarations actually does work
> despite the support being mostly missing.  I don't know if anyone is
> working on it at the moment, though.
>   

I'm currently working on essentially everything about friend 
declarations *except* access control, i.e. adding the semantic checks, 
not treating declared entities as members, &c.  Much of this is done and 
should land sometime either this weekend or early next week.

John.
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