possibly incorrect error message (gcc 2.7.2/linux)

[Nathan Sidwell]

Julian Hall wrote:
> 
> The following definition causes an error message on gcc 2.7.2 when compiled
> with 'gcc -c -ansi test.cc'.  All other compilers I have access to (Borland
> C++ 4.5, LCC 3.1) accept the code.  The identifier/keyword 'typename' is
> not mentioned anywhere in the GCC 2.7.2 'info' documentation (except in
> narrative text where it is used to refer to the name of a type).
your code is being compiled as c++, because of the .cc suffix and lack of
command line option overriding that. `typename' is a reserved c++ keyword.

nathan

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