c++/729

[nathan@gcc.gnu.org]

The following reply was made to PR c++/729; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: nathan@gcc.gnu.org
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org, rovf@earthling.net
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Subject: Re: c++/729
Date: 24 Dec 2000 15:39:48 -0000

 Synopsis: compiler does not recognize variable definition
 
 State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
 State-Changed-By: nathan
 State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 24 07:39:47 2000
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     Gcc may or may not be correct here, I can't tell from the standard. If `p' was initialized by a single arg ctor. i.e.
     NameMap::value_type p (string (name)), then the standard
     is clear that that must be read as a prototype for function
     'p'. I think that's in 6.8 (don't have a std in front of me
     now). However, your example has two parameters that only becomes not-a-prototype at the second parameter 'info'. It's
     unclear (to me) as to whether this sort of thing should be
     dealt with as a variable definition.
     Anyway, needs a better parser I guess.
 
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