Derived class linker - is this wrong?

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Published on 2010-03-18T13:54:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 14:01 UTC
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We have this situation:

so

class A { }
class B { }
class C : public A, public B { }

Now, B wants to access a property in C.

How do you do this?

The solution I came up with is to place a pointer in B to an instance of C, which is only active (not null) if this B is in fact a C.

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