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From: mao@hpclmao.HP.COM (Mike Ogush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: inline member functions returning a enumerated type
Message-ID: <58170029@hpclmao.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 90 20:47:32 GMT
References: <1851@island.uu.net>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> / hpclmao:comp.lang.c++ / chris@island.uu.net (Chris King) / 10:31 am  Jul 23, 1990 /
> 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. 
> 

    .
  Code omitted
    .

> 
> "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.
> {sun,ucbcad,uunet}!island!chris
> 						
> ----------

I this out on HPs C++ compiler and got the same result.  I suspect that the
parser objects to "inline enum id" as a valid type.  In any case, I
modified your code to rename the "enum id" type using typedef and the code
compiled fine.

Fixed version:

struct test {
    typedef enum id { A, B, C } ID;

    ID v;

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

};

main()
{
    test t;

    ID V = t.GetV();
}

--

    Mike Ogush

    California Language Laboratory  
    Systems Technology Division
    Hewlett-Packard Company

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