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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/3028: 3.0 Compiler complains about template that used to work   under 2.95
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:26:00 -0000
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The following reply was made to PR c++/3028; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
To: James L Peterson <peterson@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Artem Khodush <artem@duma.gov.ru>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
   gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/3028: 3.0 Compiler complains about template that used to work   under 2.95
Date: 02 Jun 2001 03:15:56 +0200

 James L Peterson <peterson@austin.ibm.com> writes:
 
 | I was unable to understand the template description in Stroustrup (3rd
 | edition)
 | well enough to tell if 3.0 or 2.9.5 was right.  So you may be right that
 | 3.0
 | is correct.  The argument for 3.0 being wrong is that IListNode is
 | defined
 | inside IListBase and so has to be effectively "templated" because
 | IListBase is.
 
 But GCC-3.0 is right, because IListNode is -not- a template-name.
 
 -- Gaby