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From: schmidt%crimee.ics.uci.edu@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU ("Douglas C. Schmidt")
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: g++ 1.32 incorrectly interprets valid C++ program
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Date: 3 Jan 89 04:08:29 GMT
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Hi,

   The following C++ program is incorrectly diagnosed by g++ 1.32:

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#include <stream.h>

class Y {
public:
   static int i;
};

main ( ) {
   cout << Y::i << "\n";
}
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Here are the diagnostics:

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g++ version 1.32.0
 /usr/public/lib/g++/gcc-cpp -+ -v -I/cd/ua/schmidt/include/ -undef
-D__GNU__ -D__GNUG__ -Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix foo.C /tmp/cca15828.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.32
 /usr/public/lib/g++/gcc-c++ /tmp/cca15828.cpp -quiet -dumpbase foo.C
-fstrength-reduce -finline-functions -fmemoize-lookups -fsave-memoized
-fchar-charconst -noreg -version -o /tmp/cca15828.s
GNU C++ version 1.32.0 (sparc) compiled by GNU C version 1.31.
In function main ():

foo.C:9: bad argument 0 for function `ostream::operator << (const char
*)' (type was struct ostream *)

foo.C:9: invalid operands to binary <<
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if the expression 

Y::i 

is replaced by

int ( Y::i )

the program works fine.  cfront accepts this, however.

Doug