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[Bug c++/16093] Bad error messages for missing declarations.


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16093

Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #5 from Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Paolo Carlini from comment #4)
> In my opinion we are currently doing pretty well: the columns are ok; we
> handle templates with no excess error messages and we specifically talk
> about 'template type' for those. Comparing also to current clang, I think
> this bug could be closed.

It has improved a lot yes. But I think the point of the original reporter is
that g++ should make a difference between the case where 'foo' has not been
declared in the current context or the case where 'var' has been declared but
it is not a type. This way G++ could do *better* than clang. ;-)

For the second testcase, we have also improved, since we print the full
namespace, but clang has the helpful:

test.cc:27:5: error: no type named 'foo' in namespace 'n1::n2'; did you mean
'n3::n2::foo'?

But this is now a minor enhancement, not really a bug.

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