Re: Re: Error in stl_bvector.h and vector.tcc

[Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz <sabba dot hillel at verizon dot net>]

> 
> From: Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr>
> Date: 2004/06/09 Wed PM 01:41:42 EDT
> To: Sabba.Hillel@verizon.net
> CC: pcarlini@suse.de,  gdr@acm.org,  gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Error in stl_bvector.h and vector.tcc
> 
> 
> sabba.hillel@verizon.net said:
> > The following code causes gcc-3.4.0 to find a compile error in
> > stl_bvector.h and vector.tcc
> >
> > [ Code elided ]
> >
> > If the vector line is moved before the max, min definitions, the error
> > does not occur.  if the fstream include is removed, the error does not
> > occur. 
> 
> Without even trying to compile your code, I can tell you that 
> defining macros whose names are min and max is asking for trouble.
> There are some std::min and std::max functions and the headers 
> defining those are certainly included somehow by vector and fstream.
> 
> so instead of std::max(i,j) you got std::( ((i) > (j)) ? (i) : (j) )
> 
> This occurs a few times in vector.
> 
> Why it does not occur if you remove the fstream is more puzzling. I 
> suspect that stl_algo.h (where the min and max c++ function are 
> defined, undefines your definitions for min and max and that what the 
> error disappears...
> 
> 	Theo.

Thank you.  I knew that I was overlooking something obvious.  I will remove the defines completely.


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