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From: patrick@cos.com (Patrick Steranka)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Bug in g++ (Can't define global variable)
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Date: 2 Dec 89 20:10:33 GMT
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>From uunet!lurch.Stanford.EDU!tiemann Thu Nov 30 14:52:28 1989
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 10:48:10 PST
>From: uunet!lurch.stanford.edu!tiemann (Michael Tiemann)
>To: patrick@cos.com
>Subject: Can you define global variables that are of a type "class"
>
>Send me the code that causes the error, and tell me what machine you
>are using.  And yes, you should send GNU C++ bug reports to
>bug-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu.  

Michael, et al.,

	I have found a bug and want to report it.  The bug is:
"You can't define global variables in C++, but you should be able to."
The bug can be reproduced as follows:

==============================   File: ex5.cc  ==============================
#include <stream.h>
#include <String.h>

String astring;
 
main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
 
    astring = "This is a test";
    cout << "astring = " << astring << "\n";
}
==============================   File: ex5.cc  ==============================

This was compiled on a SUN 3/280 running SUN OS 3.5.
Here is the output from the compilation:

cd /usr.MC68020/zulu/patrick/test/c++/
make -k ex5
g++ -o ex5 -g -v ex5.cc
gcc version 1.36.1- (based on GCC 1.36)
 /usr/local/lib/gnu/gcc/gcc-cpp -+ -v -undef -D__GNUC__ -D__GNUG__ -D__cplusplus -Dmc68000 -Dsun -Dunix -D__mc68000__ -D__sun__ -D__unix__ -D__HAVE_68881__ -Dmc68020 ex5.cc /usr/tmp/cca21637.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.36
 /usr/local/lib/gnu/gcc/gcc-cc1plus /usr/tmp/cca21637.cpp -quiet -dumpbase ex5.cc -g -version -o /usr/tmp/cca21637.s
GNU C++ version 1.36.1 (based on GCC 1.36) (68k, MIT syntax) compiled by GNU C version 1.36.
default target switches: -m68020 -mc68020 -m68881 -mbitfield
 as -mc68020 -o ex5.o /usr/tmp/cca21637.s
as: error (/usr/tmp/cca21637.s:568): Invalid operand
as: error (/usr/tmp/cca21637.s:595): Invalid operand
g++: ex5.o: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Target `ex5' not remade because of errors

Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat Dec  2 15:02:45