Bug: Parse error or C++ language ambiguity?

[Alexandre Oliva]

Charles Durst <cdurst@world.std.com> writes:

> The problem (as can be seen by uncommenting line 1) is that GCC mistakes
> it for a declaration of a global function named "foo".

Yes, but it is getting it wrong.  That statement cannot be a
declaration, so it should be re-parsed as a statement.  That's quite
hard to do, but Mark Mitchell is working on that, AFAIK.  We've got a
testcase for this problem in the testsuite already.

Thanks for your report anyway.

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