r267534 - [MSVC] PR27337: allow static_cast from private base to derived for WTL

[Richard Smith via cfe-commits]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Stephan T. Lavavej via cfe-commits <
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> [Dmitry Polukhin]
> > As for 'A*' to 'B*" case, indeed it is not very common and it looks like
> someone just forgot to specify 'public'.
>
> If we're doing something gratuitously nonconformant in MS product code or
> even sample code, you should report it to us, so we can fix it upstream,
> instead of having to add more bug compatibility to clang, or tolerate known
> failures when using clang on MS sample code.
>
> I don't have the context here (just subscribed to cfe-commits), but if you
> can send me a self-contained writeup of where and what the problem is in
> the WTL sample, I can go find the owner and report it to them. We can't go
> back in time and fix released stuff, but we should be able to apply simple
> fixes to future releases of products and samples.
>

You can find a description of the problem in llvm.org/PR27337


> Thanks,
> Stephan T. Lavavej
> Senior Developer - Visual C++ Libraries
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