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Re: in g++(invalid use of incomplete type)
http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596007614/
both book and last time I copied, that example code did not have
#include <locale>
Thanks your help
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi eric,
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:32:56PM -0700, eric wrote:
>> Dear c++ programers:
>>
>> ? If you are also an g++ programers, especially ever create/modify its
>> source code, I need your help
>> I have a piece simple code about formatting a date/time as a string
>> from a book. ?its authors claim it work in vc++7.1 on xp.
>> but my g++4.5.2 didn't pass it on compile stage
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> eric@eric-laptop:~/cppcookbook/ch5$ g++ Example5-4.cpp
>> Example5-4.cpp: In function ‘std::ostream&
>> formatDatetime(std::ostream&, const tm&, const char*)’:
>> Example5-4.cpp:16:17: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘const
>> struct std::time_put<char>’
>
> I assume it's the same problem as with most of your examples: this
> is probably no valid C++ code. You use the class std::time_put in file
> Example5-4.cpp, line 16. ?But in the headers you include, this class is
> only forward declared, but not defined ==> the compiler can't continue.
> Did you really include <locale> ?
>
> Axel
>
>