[Q] bug with -pedantic option ???

[Martin v. Loewis]

>   Is it a compiler bug or am I doing something wrong??

Thanks for your report. You are doing something wrong.

>   list<Type>::const_iterator it1;
[...]
> BUG_egcs_1.1.1_compile_option_pedantic_syntax_error.cpp:43: parse error before `;'

There are two bug. One is that foo<T>::bar might be a value or a type
if you don't know what T is; in the standard, we assume that it is a
value, so 

  list<Type>::const_iterator it1

is ill-formed ('list<Type>::const_iterator *it1' would be a
multiplication). To tell the compiler we think this is a type, write

  typename list<Type>::const_iterator it1

Furthermore, in standard C++, we don't look always at base class
templates. So just writing

  const_iterator it2

is also incorrect.

Regards,
Martin