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From: chris@island.uu.net (Chris King)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: inline member functions returning a enumerated type
Keywords: inline enum
Message-ID: <1851@island.uu.net>
Date: 23 Jul 90 17:31:47 GMT
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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Hi.
  I could use some help figuring out a problem I am having with
defining a inline member function that returns a enum. I don't
understand the compile time error I get when I try to do this. I am
using Sun's version of cfront 2.0. Here is a simple test program
showing the problem and cfronts output. 


struct test {
    enum id { A, B, C };
    
    enum id v;

    test() { v = A; }
    inline enum id GetV() { return v; }

};

main()
{
    test t;

    enum id V = t.GetV();
}


"TestClass.cc", line 8: error: bad base type: inline enum id


Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me.


Chris King
Island Graphics Corp.
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