Compile time error C4407.

Question

Hi All,

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

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

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.