[Bug c++/11881] New: Wrong or confusing error message

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           Summary: Wrong or confusing error message
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.3.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c++
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: schnetter at uni-tuebingen dot de
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i386-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i386-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i386-pc-linux-gnu


I receive the error messsage

$ g++ vv.cc
vv.cc: In constructor `iterator::iterator()':
vv.cc:3: error: syntax error before `;' token

where there is no semicolon in line 3.

Environment:
System: Linux because 2.4.21-3-686 #1 Sun Jul 20 16:11:09 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686

	
host: i386-pc-linux-gnu
build: i386-pc-linux-gnu
target: i386-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i386-linux

How-To-Repeat:

The input file was

class iterator {
  int * elt;
  iterator () : elt(int*()) { }
  int y;
};