bad error message: request for member `val' in static member function

Bob Sidebotham rns@spud.eng.fore.com
Wed Dec 17 08:44:00 GMT 1997


For the (presumably illegal) class foo, shown below, egcs-1.0 gives
the following error:

    xxx.cc:4: request for member `val' in static member function
    xxx.cc:4: confused by earlier errors, bailing out

This is clearly inappropriate since there's no static member function
involved.

gcc 2.7.2.3 gives the following, more appropriate message:

    xxx.cc:4: `val' was not declared in this scope

class foo {
public:
    int val;
    void bar(int v = val);
};



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