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Re: g++ doesn't like "major" & "minor" as class variable names.

From: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>
To: adunstan at optimetrics dot org
Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:55:03 +0100
Subject: Re: g++ doesn't like "major" & "minor" as class variable names.

> As far as I can tell neither "major" nor "minor" are keywords.

They are not gcc reserved names, but *glibc* reserved names!
Indeed, try reducing your testcase to something not including <iostream> and the
problem will go away, since <iostreams> ends up including
/usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h which defines the macros "major" and "minor".

Ciao, Paolo.

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