static const enums and "storage class specified for typename" errors

static const enums and "storage class specified for typename" errors

[George R. Lee Jr.]

I have the following code:

class A {
    ...
    protected:
        static const enum foo {...};
}

which gets a "storage class specified for typeanme" error.

Am I allowed to declare enums const and static under gcc?
(This, incidentally, conpiled under Microsoft's Visual C++ compile
without any errors.)

George Lee
george@links2go.com
Links2Go, Inc.

RE: static const enums and "storage class specified for typename" errors

[David Korn]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George R. Lee Jr. [ mailto:george@topicalstorm.com ]
>Sent: 04 January 2001 15:53

>I have the following code:
>
>class A {
>    ...
>    protected:
>        static const enum foo {...};
>}
>
>which gets a "storage class specified for typeanme" error.

  Try this:

enum footype { ... };

class A {
     ...
     protected:
        static const footype foo;
}

  The problem here is a confusion between declaring the list of values
allowable for the enum, and declaring a variable containing one of the
enum values. 

>Am I allowed to declare enums const and static under gcc?

  It shouldn't be a problem; but it's meaningless to try and declare
the type static const, rather than declaring a variable OF that type
static and const.

>(This, incidentally, conpiled under Microsoft's Visual C++ compile
>without any errors.)

  I don't know C++ well enough to tell you who's right and who's wrong in
this case, although it may be the case that anonymous enums aren't allowed
in C++.

      DaveK
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