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Re: C++ [RFC] taking address of a static const data member

Thanks Andrew. Yes, standard actually mentions this that I missed.

- fariborz



On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:


On Mar 11, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Fariborz Jahanian wrote:
So, is g++ correct in rejecting this seemingly good user code? 

Yes you need a place to store the data.
So for an example in your original testcase, you need:
const int Foo::foo;

Which fixes the problem and yes 9.4.2 explains this (I cannot find it right
now but I know there has been multiple bugs about this in the past).

-- Pinski


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