Re: c++/1838

Re: c++/1838

[Craig Rodrigues]

The following reply was made to PR c++/1838; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@mediaone.net>
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, pabrabbin@hotmail.com, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: rodrigc@mediaone.net
Subject: Re: c++/1838
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:37:24 -0500

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 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=1838&database=gcc
 
 tested with:
 gcc version 2.97 20010211 (experimental) 
 
 Compiling the attached bug.C supplied by Phil yielded the following:
 bug.C:13: explicit specialization in non-namespace scope `struct IDataOutput'
 bug.C:14: invalid use of undefined type `struct IDataOutput'
 bug.C:6: forward declaration of `struct IDataOutput'
 bug.C:14: confused by earlier errors, bailing out   
 
 This did not result in an internal compiler error.
 
 Compiling the same test case under the Digital Unix C++ compiler yielded:
 cxx: Error: bug.C, line 13: explicit specialization is not allowed in the
           current scope
         template <>
 --------^
 cxx: Error: bug.C, line 15: identifier "Indent" is undefined
                 Indent();
 ----------------^
 cxx: Info: 2 errors detected in the compilation of "bug.C".        
 
 This looks like buggy code, but my C++ expertise on templates
 is low, so I can't confirm it.
 
 I recommended that Phil get the latest version of
 gcc from ftp://rawhide.redhat.com , since that fixes a lot
 of bugs in the Redhat 7.0 version of gcc.
 
 Should this bug report be closed?
 -- 
 Craig Rodrigues        
 http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
 rodrigc@mediaone.net          
 
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 class string
 {
     char *str;
 };
 
 struct IDataOutput {
         template <typename T>
         inline void WriteElement()
         {
                 Indent();
         }
 
         template <>
         inline void WriteElement<string>() {
 	        Indent();
         }
 
 };
 
 
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