Code that worked in gcc-2.95.2 but not in 2.96...

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 18, 2000, Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey@switchco.com> wrote:

> class Default : public exception
> {
> static const char* defaulttext;

This is a static data member.

> const char* defaulttext = "Default exception!";

But this is the kind of thing one may keep hours staring at the code
without noticing. You didn't mean to define a global variable here,
did you? :-)

Make it `Default::defaulttext' and it should work.

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