Incorrect error message ...

[Thomas Binder]

Hi everybody!

The following code sequence produces a very irritating error message with
all egcs/gcc versions I tried so far.

class TEST

{
public:
        TEST ()
        {}

        virtual int notdefined ();
};


int main ()

{       TEST    t1;
}

eg++ bug.cc -o bug

/tmp/ccgEGePl.o: In function `main':
/tmp/ccgEGePl.o(.text+0xb): undefined reference to `TEST::TEST(void)'

This is a very irritating message because the actual error was that function 
`notdefined'  has never been defined. 

However, when the instantation of class TEST is changed to

	TEST	t1 ();
                   ^^^
                    |
--------------------+

egcs is completely silent which I consider to be even worse.


regards,
Tom
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