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Re: A glibc or egcs bug?


hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:

> This is from glibc 2.1:
> 
> # gcc -v
> Reading specs from
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.90.20/specs
> gcc version egcs-2.90.20 971201 (gcc2-970802 experimental)
> # gcc -S w.cc
> w.cc: In function `int foo()':
> w.cc:48: no matching function for call to `__WAIT_STATUS::._2 (int *)'
> w.cc:38: candidates are: __WAIT_STATUS::._2(const {anonymous union} &)
> w.cc:38:                 __WAIT_STATUS::._2()

I've changed glibc earlier this week to not use transparent unions for C++.
This is unfortunate since the avoiding casts is always good but maybe it's
too difficult to change the C++ lookup handling.  Jason?

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