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From: schmidt@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Gnu's own examples ???
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Date: 10 Mar 89 03:46:07 GMT
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In article <8903092200.AA05384@prep.ai.mit.edu> T.Day@PURPLE.CS.UCL.AC.UK (Tim Day) writes:
++ I can't get the following to compile (or fail cleanly) under g++ version 1.32.0 
++ (is essentially the example from ``naming an expression's type'' in the
++ manual).
++ -------
++ #include <stream.h>
++ 
++ #define max(a,b) \
++   ({typedef _ta = (a),_tb = (b); \
++   _ta _a = (a);_tb _b = (b); \
++   _a > _b ? _a : _b; })
++ 
++ main()
++ {	int a=1,b=2;
++ 	cout << max(a,b);		// Here
++ 
++ 	exit(0);
++ }

This bug should be fixed with 1.34.  It resulted from a typo in
cplus-parse.y.

Doug
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