strange error!

[indrajit_p1]

I will give out snippets of the production level code in my current project (regardless of the legal, moral, ethical, mathematical and political correctness of doing so).

The is a class having a function:

class bu_tde_mti_base:public some_class
{
...
public:
virtual inline void
set( const bu_mti_typ_e mti_typ )
}

bu_mti_typ_e is an enum type.

There is another class:

class bu_tde_mti : public bu_tde_mti_base
{
...
}

The there is some code:

bool
if_cup_intf::build_fld_070( some params,
                                          const bu_tde_mti &mti,
                                          more params)
    {
     ...
     mti.set( mti_netwk_mgmt_rqst_resp );
     }

This code is getting the following error:

Could not find match for bu_tde_mti_base::set(bu_mti_typ_e mti_typ) needed in function
if_cup_intf::build_fld_070(…)

Two of us senior programmmers have tried doing something about it, to no avail. So definitely I would like help in solving this error.

But even before we start, can someone explain to me how the compiler pinpoints the exact level in the three-level hierarchy where it is expecting the function? It's denitely not psychic???

We are trying to compile this in a Sun box.

$uname -a
SunOS oma3s016 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
$

the compiler is SunWSPro CC.

PLEAAASE HELP!

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I tried casting the parameter of the call to a const since I saw the const missing from what the compiler is trying to look for. This time it gave the same error but for a formal parameter of "const int". And what more, the set function IS overloaded for a const int formal argument..