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From: nelson@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: non-member-function const bug
Message-ID: <53300016@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 90 17:41:03 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!nelson    Jan 22 20:08:00 1990


Well, a simple type leads to a bug (that should be easy to fix):

Running 1.36.3 on a Sun 3/260.

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guitar> cat test.c
class foobar {
	friend	int operator==(int a, foobar foo) const;
};

guitar> /usr/local/testbin/newg++ test.c
Failed assertion TREE_CODE (type) == METHOD_TYPE at line 5167 of `cplus-decl.c'.
/usr/local/testbin/newg++: Program cc1plus got fatal signal 6.
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Clearly, I cannot use the const since it is not a member function, but
  it should give me an error, not die mercilessly...

If you take the "const" away, everything compiles fine.