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From: Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Confusing error message
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812151359.OAA01147@jolan.ppro> (raw)

Hi,

I ran into the following confusing error message:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class A;

bool A::foo(void)
{
  return true;
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

gives:

errmsg.cc:4: no `bool A::foo()' member function declared in class `A'


while the real problem is that I didn't include the correct header file
(but another header file that only contained a forward declaration).

In a large program this can be quite confusing, wouldn't it be better to say:

errmsg.cc:4: class `A' is only a forward declaration.

Or something like that?

-- 
 Carlo Wood  <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>

             reply	other threads:[~1998-12-15  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-15  9:16 Carlo Wood [this message]
1998-12-15 10:11 ` Nathan Sidwell
1999-01-31 23:58   ` Jason Merrill

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