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Problem with forward declaration of classes with nested templates
- From: "Steven Keuchel" <steven dot keuchel at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:56:47 +0200
- Subject: Problem with forward declaration of classes with nested templates
Hey,
the following piece of code doesn't compile, although I can't think of
anything why it shouldn't. Reversing the order of the declaration of
struct a and b solves this, which is kinda irritating. Any idea why
this isn't compiling? and maybe a quote from teh standard about this?
Thanks in advance,
Steven
-----------------
struct b;
struct a : public b::impl<0>
{};
struct b
{
template<int>
struct impl
{};
};
-----------------
g++ -v -c forward_test.cpp
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release
i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20060920 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu3)
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/cc1plus -quiet -v -D_GNU_SOURCE
forward_test.cpp -quiet -dumpbase forward_test.cpp -mtune=generic
-auxbase forward_test -version -fstack-protector -fstack-protector -o
/tmp/cc5JIJA9.s
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include/i486-linux-gnu"
ignoring nonexistent directory
"/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../i486-linux-gnu/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/include/i486-linux-gnu"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2/i486-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2/backward
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include
/usr/include
End of search list.
GNU C++ version 4.1.2 20060920 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu3)
(i486-linux-gnu)
compiled by GNU C version 4.1.2 20060920 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
4.1.1-13ubuntu3).
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=99 --param ggc-min-heapsize=129480
Compiler executable checksum: c3f2c9ee44f31617ad714092aa741e6d
forward_test.cpp:3: error: expected template-name before '<' token
forward_test.cpp:3: error: expected `{' before '<' token
forward_test.cpp:3: error: expected unqualified-id before '<' token