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Re: bug report...



> > Yup, AFAI recall, the problem has to do with generating templates of
> > local classes in function templates.  Bear in mind, however, that
> > using local classes as template arguments is *not* ANSI/ISO C++
> > ([temp.arg.type]/2 explicitly forbits this), it is an extension
> > provided by gcc and egcs.
> 
> I'm sorry, I missed the first part of this thread.  Can you provide a small
> snippet of code that illustrates this?  You say this is explicitly
> forbidden from ISO C++ and it is supported anyway by egcs; is there a
> warning or compiler flag that prevents someone from inadvertently writing
> this non-portable code?

Ideally, the -ansi flag should warn about use of extensions (that
doesn't mean it currently does in every case) and -ansi -pedantic
should make the compiler really nitpicky about deviations from the
standard.  Again, because the language is so big I'm sure egcs has
missed a lot of these things.



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