Re: c++/3745: bug in basic_string.tcc

[Eric Allamanche <alm@iis.fhg.de>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/3745; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric Allamanche <alm@iis.fhg.de>
To: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, spz@iis.fhg.de
Subject: Re: c++/3745: bug in basic_string.tcc
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:54:18 +0200

 Phil,
 
 thanks for your answer. The "serious" qualifier was due to the fact that
 I did not really paid attention to this field (sorry for that). Anyhow,
 we had some code which could not get compiled because of the mentionned
 issue. I will check if we can reproduce this error with a reduced code
 fragment.
 
 Eric
 
 Phil Edwards wrote:
 > 
 > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:04:42AM -0000, alm@iis.fhg.de wrote:
 > > >Severity:       serious
 > > >Description:
 > > On line 630 of the basic_string.tcc file:
 > >   __pos = std::min(__size - __n ,__pos);
 > >
 > > should be:
 > >  __pos = min(__size - __n ,__pos);
 > >
 > > since the entire block is in the "namespace std {" scope.
 > > This can lead to a compilation error.
 > 
 > Perhaps I'm being dense, but I do not see how.  I have tried to make this
 > function call fail to compile, but cannot.  Please give an example of such
 > source code, showing why this is "serious".
 > 
 > We could probably remove "std::" just to make it match with the rest of the
 > file, but I would want to know why the qualifier is there in the first place.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Phil
 > 
 > --
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