libstdc++/3619: GCC 3.0 C++ backwards compatibility bug?

[Phil Edwards]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/3619; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
To: us@ooc.de
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: libstdc++/3619: GCC 3.0 C++ backwards compatibility bug?
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:31:21 -0400

 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:03:17AM +0200, Uwe Seimet wrote:
 > > > >Description:
 > > > Compiling a file with this single line of code:
 > > > 
 > > > #include <strstream>
 > > > 
 > > > does not work but leads to error messages.
 > > 
 > > /Which/ error message?
 > 
 > I'm sorry I forgot to add the message. Here it is:
 > 
 > duplo>/opt/egcs/bin/c++ test.cpp
 > In file included from test.cpp:1:
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:38: syntax error before `:' token
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:42: `_Traits' was not declared in this scope
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:42: syntax error before `;' token
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:48: type specifier omitted for parameter
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:48: parse error before `,' token
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:49: type specifier omitted for parameter
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:49: parse error before `,' token
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:50: type specifier omitted for parameter
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:50: parse error before `,' token
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:52: type specifier omitted for parameter
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:52: parse error before `)' token
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:53: type specifier omitted for parameter
 > /opt/egcs/include/g++-v3/strstream:53: parse error before `)' token
 
 I still can't reproduce this.  Even those line numbers don't make sense.
 And strstream isn't installed into $prefix/include/g++-v3 anyhow; it's
 installed in the backward subdirectory one level deeper.  Something is
 seriously wrong here.
 
 
 Phil
 
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