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+// Test that we resolve this case as mandated by the standard, but also
+// warn about it.  We choose op char* not because it is a member of B --
+// the standard says that all conversion ops are treated as coming from
+// the type of the argument -- but because it is non-const.
+
+struct A  {
+  operator const char *() const;
+};
+
+struct B : public A {
+  operator char *() { return 0; }
+};
+
+int main()
+{
+  B b;
+  (const char *)b;		// WARNING - surprising overload resolution
+}