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From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
To: paolo@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
Subject: Re: c++/8279: REGRESSION: failure to find a matching function in
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021021211601.5812.qmail@sources.redhat.com> (raw)

The following reply was made to PR c++/8279; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
To: jbuck@synopsys.com, <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>, <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>,
   <paolo@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: c++/8279: REGRESSION: failure to find a matching function in
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:09:39 -0500 (CDT)

 > Even if gcc's behavior is correct, the diagnostic is puzzling:
 >
 > PREFIX/include/c++/3.2.1/bits/stream_iterator.h:141: no 
 >    match for `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& << const 
 >    std::pair<std::string, unsigned int>&' operator
 >
 > when there is what appears to be an exact match.  Strategies to come up
 > with a better diagnostic (e.g. tell the user why the function s/he
 > intended to use isn't accepted) would be wlcome.
 
 Maybe a first simple step would be to change the message to say
       no match for `...' found during name lookup
 Indicating that there _might_ even be such a name, but that it just was 
 not found. This would at least give a clue as to what may be going wrong.
 
 Regards
   Wolfgang
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wolfgang Bangerth              email:           bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu
                                www: http://www.ticam.utexas.edu/~bangerth
 
 


             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-21 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-21 14:16 Wolfgang Bangerth [this message]
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2002-10-21 12:46 Joe Buck
2002-10-21  9:36 Wolfgang Bangerth
2002-10-21  9:16 Joe Buck

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