gcc bug

[Mumit Khan]

"K. Haley" <khaley@bigfoot.com> writes:
> This code compiles under Borland and MS compilers.  GCC however, can't seem
> to find the proper new. I've tried egcs 1.1.2 and the prerelease snapshot
> of  GCC 2.95.
> 
> 
> #include <new.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> class foo
> {
> 	public:
> 	foo(){;};
> };
> 
> namespace OWL {
> template <class A> class TMMemStack{
> 	public:
> 
>     TMMemStack(  );
> 		void*	Allocate( size_t );
> 
> 	private:
>     size_t CurLoc;
> };
> template <class A> inline void* operator new( size_t sz, TMMemStack<A>& m )
> {
>  return m.Allocate( sz );
> }
> 
> void f()
> {
> 	foo *i;
> 	i=new foo; <<<<< HERE
> }
> }; 
> ---

Though ill-formed according to 3.7.3.1 "ill-formed if an allocation 
function is declared in a namespace scope other than the global
scope ...", gcc's diagnostic can definitely stand an improvement.
It essentially quits with the following message when it hits the line
marked with <<<< HERE.:
  
  new-bug.cc: In function `void OWL::f()':
  new-bug.cc:46: no matching function for call to `operator new (int)'

Regards,
Mumit