Re: [wwwdocs] Document Waddress in GCC 4.2

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:

[...]

| PS: I have one comment, not on the patch but on warnings.  For the
| following input
| 
|   struct C {
|     int f() { return 1; }
|   };
| 
|   int f(C &c) {
|     return ( 1 == c.f );
|   }
| 
| we currently issue
| 
|   In function 'int f(C&)':
|   6: error: invalid use of member (did you forget the '&' ?)
| 
| In such a case, that is, for member functions, isn't adding the missing
| () more likely than adding &?  Would you like me to create a Bugzilla for
| this?

I'm not clear what you mean here; please could you elaborate?

MS compiler used to have a extension called "bounded member" which has
exactly the syntax c.f; I did remember that when I worked on that
specific diagonstic we did have an extended discussion about what to
say -- GNU C++ used tp have that.

-- Gaby