Namespace and enums

["Marcus A Martin" <shalidor at cfl dot rr dot com>]

I am working on a project and am constrained to using "pure" RH6.1
distribution that uses the egcs 1.1.2 compiler (actually gcc 2.91.66).
However, I run into a difficult problem and am attempting to find a solution
other than "upgrade to gcc 2.95.2" which is not an option because of
customer requirements.

The problem deals with enumerations that are declared in a namespace.
Specificly, the error has to do with the namespace scoping of the enum value
sued in a default parameter in the jcTest constructor defined below. If the
macro NO_BAD is defined, everything works fine, otherwise I get the error:

foo.cpp:24: sorry, not implemented: `namespace_decl' not supported by
dump_type
foo.cpp:24: sorry, not implemented: `namespace_decl' not supported by
dump_type

Can anyone tell me what this error means? I read it as this capability is
not supported by the compiler.

Does anyone know of a valid workaround for this problem?

Thanks,

Marcus

====================== Begin Example =============
namespace jc {
  enum Bing {
    Burp,
    Blaa
    };
};

#ifndef NO_BAD
template <class T>
class jcTest {
  public:

        jcTest(T x, jc::Bing b = jc::Burp);

        T        _i;
        jc::Bing _b;
};


template <class T>
inline
jcTest<T>::jcTest(T i, jc::Bing b)
    : _i(i), _b(b)
{
}
#endif


class jcTest2 {
  public:

        jcTest2(jc::Bing b = jc::Burp);

        jc::Bing _b;
};


jcTest2::jcTest2(jc::Bing b)
    : _b(b)
{
}


int
main()
{
#ifndef NO_BAD
        jcTest<int>     m(1);
#endif
        jcTest2         n;
        return 0;
}
================================= End Example ================

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