* Problem with 'static asserts' in gcc-3.3.1 --- error messages have less detail.
@ 2003-08-27 16:09 Warren_Baird
2003-08-28 17:23 ` Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci
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From: Warren_Baird @ 2003-08-27 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
Hi all,
Recently I borrowed a trick from the Boost toolkit's static_assert.hpp to force
developers to not use certain functions - I defined bodyless structs who's name
contains the message I want to give, and then take the sizeof that struct.
Something like:
struct ERROR___Please_use_bar_instead_of_foo;
#define foo(x) sizeof(ERROR___Please_use_bar_instead_of_foo)
With MSCV 6 and 7, and gcc 3.2 and earlier, you get a message like:
testErrors.cpp:14: `sizeof' applied to incomplete type `
ERROR___Please_use_bar_instead_of_foo'
which is perhaps not perfect, but it gets the message across. Unfortunately
with gcc-3.3.1 the C compiler does the right thing, but the C++ compiler just
says:
testErrors.cpp:14: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type
Which isn't particularly useful...
Does anyone have any idea why this was changed, or if there is any way to
restore the old error messages? I was half-way tempted to report this as a
bug...
Failing that - does any one have any other suggestions of ways to do this?
Thanks,
Warren.
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* Re: Problem with 'static asserts' in gcc-3.3.1 --- error messages have less detail.
2003-08-27 16:09 Problem with 'static asserts' in gcc-3.3.1 --- error messages have less detail Warren_Baird
@ 2003-08-28 17:23 ` Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci
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From: Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci @ 2003-08-28 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Warren_Baird, gcc-help
At 11:55 27/08/2003 -0400, Warren_Baird@cimmetry.com wrote:
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>Does anyone have any idea why this was changed, or if there is any way to
>restore the old error messages? I was half-way tempted to report this as a
>bug...
I think this happens because C++ now uses a new preprocessor, so it's not a
bug. Maybe a feature...
But, you can post a bug report asking for the old functionality back.
.fwyzard.
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