C++ [RFC] taking address of a static const data member

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Fri Mar 11 19:25:00 GMT 2005


On Mar 11, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Fariborz Jahanian wrote:
> So, is g++ correct in rejecting this seemingly good user code?

Yes you need a place to store the data.
So for an example in your original testcase, you need:
const int Foo::foo;

Which fixes the problem and yes 9.4.2 explains this (I cannot find it 
right
now but I know there has been multiple bugs about this in the past).

-- Pinski



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