[Bug c++/22227] g++ 4.0.0 has issues with the typedef of reference

[bangerth at dealii dot org]

------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org  2005-06-29 13:45 -------
> Well it compiles perfectly fine on a Sun Solaris Machine with  
> Sun Studio 9 installed that has the Sun CC compiler.  Also It  
> was written by a Computer Science Professor at the University  
> of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a school ranked in the list  
> of the top 5 in the nation for Computer Science.  What does  
> not look like C++ to you,  
> 
> This is a templated overloaded operator*() that has a return  
> type as a const reference to the element type.  Returns by  
> const_reference the cell storing the element to which this  
> const_iterator points to. 
 
You certainly understand that the person who asked the question, Gabriel 
Dos Reis is a member of the C++ standardization committee, right? I would  
assume that he has a better understanding of C++ than the average CS 
professor, even if, as you make sure to point out, this professor is from 
a good school. 
 
That being said, the code you quoted in your original submission is 
 
template <class Etype> 
typename list<Etype>::reference  
                        list<Etype>::const_iterator*() const 
 
That's definitely not an operator*. I believe that you simply did a copy-paste 
error, because this code doesn't appear anywhere in the sources you sent, but 
that's not an excuse to be disrespectful to others in this forum. 
 
W. 

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22227