[Bug c++/12433] Finds wrong overload of std::operator<<

[igodard at pacbell dot net]

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12433


igodard at pacbell dot net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Wrong error message         |Finds wrong overload of
                   |                            |std::operator<<


------- Additional Comments From igodard at pacbell dot net  2003-09-27 22:30 -------
Further info: the problem does not appear to be in the warning message, but in the overload resolution of std::operator<<. In particular, the compiler is finding std::operator<<(ostream&, bool), and coercing the function pointer to bool which results in the (correct) warning given the (incorrect) overload.

std::operator<< is templated to accept any pointer type and put out the text representation of the target address to the ostream. It seems to fail with function pointers though.