RE: C++ undefined symbol

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Olivier Garbil [mailto:ogarbil@palmware.fr]
>Sent: 26 March 2001 10:38

>I have done a back end for our target (a virtual machine) on gcc-2.95.2.
>The C works fine but not the C++. If I try to compile this code:
>
>class a
>{
> public:
>   static long i;
>   void foo() {i = 0;}
>};
>
>main()
>{
> a* A = new a;
> A->foo();
>}
>
>The i attributs is correctly use (as __static_1a_i) but never declared
>in the assembler code produced by g++.

  Your C++ code is bad.  A static member of a class must be explicitly
defined as well as declared.  Add the line

long a::i;

somewhere in there and all should be ok.

      DaveK
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