[Bug c++/17854] Accept statement expressions at top level

[gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu  2004-10-06 00:47 -------
Subject: Re:  New: Accept statement expressions at top level

"rth at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| The primary motivation for allowing this is to handle macros provided by
| system headers.  For instance, the htonl macro from <netinet/in.h> in glibc
| uses statement expressions, but from the user's point of view it looks like
| a function call.  Admittedly gcc 3.4 gives a much better error message than
| did previous versions, but it can still be confusing.
| 
| It does seem like it'd be perfectly straightforward to implement -- just 
| drop the expression into the global constructor function and be done, but
| as the attached test case shows, it's not quite that simple due to
| the parsing of "register" outside the syntactic scope of a function.

Given that this is C++ and you're referring to the file-scope
constructor, why can't glibc just use  objects (of class-type) at
global scope?  I believe that provides a cleaner approach.
Oh yes, glibc would have to test for __cplusplus.

-- Gaby


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