[Bug c++/20589] error: '<anonymous enum>' is/uses anonymous type'

[mark at codesourcery dot com]

------- Additional Comments From mark at codesourcery dot com  2005-08-05 03:49 -------
Subject: Re:  error: '<anonymous enum>' is/uses anonymous type'

sethml at google dot com wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From sethml at google dot com  2005-08-05 03:43 -------
> The C++ working group examined this issue in April as core language issue 488:
>   http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_active.html#488
> 
> They tentatively concluded that type deduction should fail in this case, leaving
> the built-in operator==(int,int) version as the only viable candidate and thus
> the code attached to this bug report would compile.
> 
> It seems likely that this decision will hold, that the standard will be
> clarified, making this code valid.
> 
> Can we get this bug re-opened, and perhaps change GCC 4 to accept this code in
> anticipation of the C++ standard changing to explicitly allow it?

Our normal practice has been not to do that until the issue is in at 
least WP status.



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