From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
To: "Andrew J. Malton" <ajmalton@uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forward class in throw declaration.
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:40:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BA21753.240E2200@codesourcery.com>
References: <200109141406.KAA28750@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00546.html

"Andrew J. Malton" wrote:
> 
> The following snippet uses a forward class name in a throw declaration:
> 
> class F {
>      int v;
> public:
>      F (int v) { this-> v = v; }
>      void raise () throw (F) { throw new F (0); }
> };
> 
> It compiles and works perfectly well using "gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)" and "gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
> (release)" but when compiled with "gcc version 3.0" it fails to parse:
> 
> F.cpp:5: invalid use of undefined type `class F'
> F.cpp:1: forward declaration of `class F'
> 
> Is this a bug, or newly correct ;-) behaviour, or am I missing something?
newly correct. 15.4/1

nathan
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