CODEWITHSUNDEEP
mfcvisual-c++-2008
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gamer_rags

Reputation: 134

Compile time error C4407

We have the following class structure in our code

Class A: public CDialog, public Base1, public Base2
{
};

In implementation of Class A we have the following:

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP( A, CDialog )
    ON_WM_SIZE()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

Please note Base1 and Base2 doesn't inherit from CDialog or any other MFC classes.

On VC6 the compilation is successful. But on VC9 we get the following error code:

error C4407: cast between different pointer to member representations, compiler may generate incorrect code.

This error code is pointing to the location of ON_WM_SIZE.

Could anyone possibly tell me a solution. Thanks in advance.

Gamer

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1616

Answers (4)

Penny
Penny

Reputation: 656

in my case, the class Base2 has virtual method. eg.

class Base2
{
 virtual void method(){};
}

and the warning occurs when I use 

Class A: public CDialog, public Base1, public virtual Base2
{
};

to define the class A.

If I remove the virtual keyword here.

Class A: public CDialog, public Base1, public Base2
{
};

then the warning disappeared. Please note I didn't remove virtual in the body of Base2. Just in class A definition.

Hope it can help you.

Upvotes: 0

Pedro Lamarão
Pedro Lamarão

Reputation: 531

I just solved an instance of this problem; found this question with a web search.

In my case I also had a dialog class inheriting from more than one class: CDialog and ConfigurationTab, which is an internal interface. The compiler warning was silenced by changing:

class Foo : public ConfigurationTab, public CDialog

with:

class Foo : public CDialog, public ConfigurationTab

We discovered this situation when the offending dialog crashed inside a ON_BN_CLICKED method at an assignment to a DDX variable. The DDX variable was mysteriously uninitialized at that line, when we were sure it was initialized.

Upvotes: 7

Ruddy
Ruddy

Reputation: 1754

I don't have an installed V9 handy, but i can see that between VS6 and VC8 the ON_WM_SIZE define has changed to be semantically the same but far more stringent in what it accepts. VC6 used C casts, where VC8 is using C++ casts which catch more problems.

We would need to see the actual declaration from your class of the OnSize method i think to be able to determine what is going wrong here.

Upvotes: 2

AndersK
AndersK

Reputation: 36092

Just guessing, been a while since I did MFC but it looks like it gets confused of your multiple inheritance

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP( class, baseclass )

expands to calling a method in 'class' so since A is multiple inherited its uncertain which of them to use, maybe you have the same method in several of the base classes?

Upvotes: 1

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