GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-04-05)

[Stefan Strasser]

Mark Mitchell schrieb:
> Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> 20734 rejects valid pointer to member
>>>
>>>   Not yet assigned.
>>
>>
>>
>> How is this less Critical?
>> This would breaks lots of code, it is template related too as it is not
>> rejected when not in templates.
> 
> 
> Clearly this is a judgement call.
> 
> However, I think it's less critical because pointers-to-members and, in 
> particular, pointers-to-members in templates are relatively less common. 
>  And, it's rejects-valid, so at least you know that you have a problem. 
>  And there are workarounds.  In contrast, the top bug on the list is 
> known to cause silent miscompilation of Qt, a very major package, and 
> it's not easy to know where the problem is.
> 

what is the workaround to this?
(in the case the class the pointer target is a member of is a template 
parameter, unlike in the PR test case)


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Stefan Strasser