From: Julian Lenz <j.j.lenz@swansea.ac.uk>
To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Reason for missing notes for incomplete-type errors in standard headers
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 17:38:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8303dbd-a5ba-6497-c336-552bfe23950d@swansea.ac.uk> (raw)
Hi everybody,
TL;DR:
What is the reason that `error: '<some class>' has incomplete type` does
not give a note about where the forward declaration happened for
standard library classes?
Full:
Recently, I forgot to include <array> but had <tuple> included. Due to
this recent commit for gcc12
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/261d5a4a459bd49942e53bc83334ccc7154a09d5
the `error: 'std::array<int,N>' has incomplete type` felt like a weird
regression because all other major gcc versions as well as clang
compiled just fine. After many hours of debugging, I finally realised
that it was just a missing header and now the error message actually
makes sense.
But when I experimented with this, I found that gcc does give you
another `<filename>:<line number>:<column number>: note: declaration of
'class SomeClass<int>'` with line number and everything. Now, I wonder
why gcc doesn't do that for standard headers (at least not in my
particular case). Is there a compelling argument for that? It feels like
it must be intentional. If not, I would suggest adding that because I'm
pretty sure it would have spared me a couple of hours just by realising
quickly that it takes `std::array` from the wrong header.
Thank you in advance and keep up the great work!
Julian
next reply other threads:[~2022-08-05 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-05 16:38 Julian Lenz [this message]
2022-08-05 16:55 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-08-05 20:27 ` Julian Lenz
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