PATCH for Re: foo.cc:15: Internal compiler error.

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

    Alexandre> Mark Mitchell <mark@markmitchell.com> writes:

    >> I think you're misreading this.  It's legal, for example, to
    >> say:

    >> void foo(class A* ap);

    Alexandre> AFAIK, it is not legal for forward-declare in a
    Alexandre> function argument declaration, but I can't find this
    Alexandre> requirement in the Nov'97 DWP, was it dropped?

This has always been legal, I think, and is certainly explicitly
endorsed in [basic.scope.pdecl]:
 
    The point of declaration of a class first declared in an
    elaborated-type-specifier is as follows:

    if the elaborated-type-specifier is used in the decl-specifier-seq
    or parameter-declaration-clause of a function defined in namespace
    scope, the identifier is declared as a class-name in the namespace
    that contains the declaration;

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