[Bug c++/31780] [4.2/4.3 regression] ICE with incompatible types for ?: with "complex type" conversion

["gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #20 from gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu  2008-01-05 07:51 -------
Subject: Re:  [4.2/4.3 regression] ICE with incompatible types for ?: with
"complex type" conversion

"mark at codesourcery dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| ------- Comment #18 from mark at codesourcery dot com  2007-12-26 21:19
-------
| Subject: Re:  [4.2/4.3 regression] ICE with incompatible types
|  for ?: with "complex type" conversion
| 
| gdr at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
| 
| > I'm very nervous about adding more constructors.
| > I'd rather distinguish the constructor taking __complex__ by adding
| > a dummy parameter:
| > 
| >    enum _DummyArg { };
| >    complex(__complex__ double __z, _DummyArg);
| 
| That will, however, break backwards compatibility for user programs (if
| any) relying on the constructor.

That isn't a concern because I never published that constructor as a
contract in the interface of std::complex<double>.

-- Gaby


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