Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!inria!axis!jcc
From: jcc@axis.fr (Jean-Christophe Collet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ Strange Bug
Message-ID: <363@axis.fr>
Date: 17 Mar 88 12:24:07 GMT
References: <2133@polya.STANFORD.EDU> <12576@sgi.SGI.COM> <4666@teddy.UUCP> <3704@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Axis Digital, Paris
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Summary: C++ Strange Bug



Hello, there !

I've found a *VERY* strange bug in the AT&T C++ Compiler Ver. 1.20 :
When you use a class name (or structure name) beginning with the 2 chars
_C you get the "un-usable struct (class) ignored" error message. then
the cfront behaviour changes with the length of the name :

	- From 2 to 7 chars : Nothing more
	- From 8 to 10 chars : "Free store exhausted"
	- 11 and more : "Bus Error"

I've tried the simplest source I could think about :

struct _C123 {
	int a;
	int b;
};

and compiled it via CC -F .

Anybody got an idea about it ?

Bye
	jcc.

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