g++ emits unknown 386 instruction guiding

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Schmid <schmid@ltoi.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

    Peter> When I tryed to remove the guiding declarators in the
    Peter> following program I encountered a really strange behaviour
    Peter> of the compiler.  The assembler says: Error: operands given
    Peter> don't match any known 386 instruction.  I believe they come
    Peter> from invoking call without an argument in line 51 and 75. I
    Peter> am using libc-5.4.40 and binutils-2.8.1.0.15.  Can someone
    Peter> fix this problem.  Peter Schmid

I know that the compiler shouldn't emit illegal instructions, but what
you wrote wasn't legal; you're missing the template<> introduction:

template <>
double max<double>(double, double);

is the way to write this, or,

template <>
double max<>(double, double);

and both of these work fine.

    Peter> // Prototypes (enable one or the other) double
    Peter> max<>(double, double); // int max(int, int);

    Peter> int main() { int i = 123; double d = 1234.5678;
  
    Peter>   cout.precision(12); cout << max(d, i) << endl; // #1 cout
    Peter> << max(i, d) << endl; // #2 return 0; }


    Peter> //---------------------------------------------------------------
    Peter> // Copyright (c) 1993 by Tom Swan. All rights reserved.  //
    Peter> Revision 1.00 Date: 02/12/1993 Time: 10:53 am

    Peter> g++ -Wall -W -o proto proto.cpp -save-temps proto.cpp:17:
    Peter> warning: `max(double, double)' was previously implicitly
    Peter> declared to return `int' proto.s: Assembler messages:
    Peter> proto.s:51: Error: operands given don't match any known 386
    Peter> instruction proto.s:75: Error: operands given don't match
    Peter> any known 386 instruction

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