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From: aoliva@gcc.gnu.org
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, hzoli@austin.ibm.com, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/4241: C++ old cast parsing bug
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 14:22:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010909212219.30598.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00198.html
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Synopsis: C++ old cast parsing bug

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: aoliva
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep  9 14:22:19 2001
State-Changed-Why:
    Yup, this is the parser bug documented in the known bugs web page.  GCC attempts to parse (long (int (bh)) as if it were a prefix of a type-cast such as (long (*)(int bh)), but the attempt fails when it doesn't encounter the third closing parenthesis that would be needed for such a parse to be correct, and then it can't recover to try an alternative parsing.  The new C++ parser being written is going to solve this problem.

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=4241&database=gcc