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From: steve@lia (Stephen Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: More cfront -> ANSI C compiler problems
Keywords: cfront ANSI
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.235825.2983@lia>
Date: 22 Jul 90 23:58:25 GMT
References: <511@pete.abccam.abcl.co.uk> <1990Jul22.234908.2820@lia>
Reply-To: steve@lia.com (Stephen Williams)
Organization: Litton/Integrated Automation, Alameda, California
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In article <1990Jul22.234908.2820@lia> steve@lia.com (Stephen Williams) writes:

>I have encountered a similar problem while using cfront 2.0
>on a SUN sparc.  My code involves a class that looks like
>this:
>	struct pair { short a, b; };
>
>	class foo {
>	    public:
>		foo();
>
>	    private:
>		int x;
>		static pair y[];
>	};
>
>The code for "y" looks like:
>
>	struct mangled_pair y[];
>
>which the "C" compiler rejects, claiming "unknown size."

I ran more tests.  Found that g++ also rejects this.
However, if I give "y" a dimension (i.e. "y[3]") g++
is happy.  This is almost sensible, but the SUN compiler
message is unchanged.  I am beginning to get annoyed.

--Steve Williams.