Re: [boost] [function] Placement new warnings from gcc 6

Subject: Re: [boost] [function] Placement new warnings from gcc 6
From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-03 07:39:02

On 04/02/2016 08:08 AM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
[snip]
>   union function_buffer
>   {
>     mutable function_buffer_members m;
>     mutable char data[sizeof(function_buffer_members)];
>   };
> 
> This would require more modifications to the code though.
> 
> (Sigh... if only we could inherit unions...)
> 

Could you provide an example of how you'd like to inherit unions?
I'm guessing:

  union function_buffer
  : supertype_1
  , supertype_2
    ...
  , supertype_N
  {
  };

where all of the supertype_I's would occupy the same storage?