GNU Compiler bug ?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> using GNU gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) on a
> Sparc with Solaris 2.7 and Rogue Wave Tools.h++ v0707 UNIX there
> appeared a problem that seems to be a bug. It is reported as 'parse
> error' but I do not find an error in the code nor a matching restriction
> in the GNU manual. 

Thanks for your bug report. The problem is with the line

    RWbostream(getStreambuf()) << size;

g++ treats "RWbostream(getStreambuf())" as a declaration, and is then
surprised about "<<". The work-around is to write

    (RWbostream(getStreambuf())) << size;

With this change, g++ reports

tmp.cpp:1439: type `RWbostream' is not yet defined

which indicates a real error in the program.

Hope this helps,
Martin