Re: bug with egs 1.1.1 release

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> I previously had this error with an older egcs, so I got
> egcs-1.1.1.tar.gz from
> ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html, I ran
> "configure" with no arguments, "make bootstrap" and "make install".

Thanks for your detailed bug report. I tried egcs-2.93.11 on, and it
doesn't crash on that code, so the bug seems to be fixed. I don't know
whether 1.1.2 has the fix, though.

Anyway, the compiler now reports (when compiling y.ii)

y.cc:4: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `auto_ptr' with no type
y.cc:4: template-id `auto_ptr<T>' used as a declarator
y.cc:4: parse error before `;'

There are two problems:

a) You didn't include <memory>, so the template std::auto_ptr isn't
   defined.
b) the compiler shouldn't crash if it isn't defined, unfortunately,
   1.1.1 crashes when you qualify a non-existant declaration with std::.
c) Even if you do include <memory>, you don't get std::auto_ptr,
   because that's not supported in egcs 1.1.1. The development
   snapshot does have that template. You could probably integrate it
   into 1.1.1 if you absolutely need to.

Hope this helps,
Martin