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From: mcvax!jclark!jjc@UUNET.UU.NET (James Clark)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: g++ 1.34.1 gets segmentation violation
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Date: 26 Mar 89 08:16:48 GMT
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g++ 1.34.1 gets a segmentation violation if one erroneously
supplies a return type for a constructor.

jclark% cat test.c

struct foo {
  void foo();
};

jclark% g++ -g -v -c test.c
g++ version 1.34.1
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -+ -v -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUG__ -Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix -D__sparc__ -D__sun__ -D__unix__ test.c /tmp/cca14546.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.34
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-c++ /tmp/cca14546.cpp -quiet -dumpbase test.c -g -version -o /tmp/cca14546.s
GNU C++ version 1.34.1 (sparc) compiled by GNU C version 1.34.
test.c:3: invalid return type given for constructor
test.c:3: Segmentation violation
Program c++ got fatal signal 11.

There's a typo in cplus-decl.c:

*** cplus-decl.c.orig	Sun Mar 26 07:49:13 1989
--- cplus-decl.c	Sun Mar 26 08:08:38 1989
***************
*** 3705,3711 ****
  	   && TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT (type) != TYPE_POINTER_TO (ctor_return_type))
      {
        error ("invalid return type given for constructor");
!       type = TYPE_POINTER_TO (ctype);
      }
  
    ctype = NULL_TREE;
--- 3705,3712 ----
  	   && TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT (type) != TYPE_POINTER_TO (ctor_return_type))
      {
        error ("invalid return type given for constructor");
!       type = TYPE_POINTER_TO (ctor_return_type);
!       explicit_int = -1;
      }
  
    ctype = NULL_TREE;