From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13748 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2011 11:03:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 13739 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jun 2011 11:03:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:03:26 +0000 From: "jwillemsen at remedy dot nl" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug c++/49450] New: not possible to call explicit destructor of std::string X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: c++ X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: jwillemsen at remedy dot nl X-Bugzilla-Status: UNCONFIRMED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:03:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg01554.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D49450 Summary: not possible to call explicit destructor of std::string Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: jwillemsen@remedy.nl We want to use C++0x unions with a std::string as member (see for example http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html#unions). At the moment we wa= nt to call the ~string we get an error. Reproducer: #include int main () { std::string s; s.~string(); return 0; } message g++-4.6 -c t.cpp t.cpp: In function =E2=80=98int main()=E2=80=99: t.cpp:6:11: error: expected class-name before =E2=80=98(=E2=80=99 token