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From: rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: misleading error messages in G++ 1.35.0-
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Date: 27 Apr 89 23:53:08 GMT
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When the following code is compiled with G++ 1.35.0/Sun3, you
get the error message shown below which says that a float was
expected.  That's wrong.  A double was expected.  Apparently
the compiler doesn't know the difference.

----------------------------------------------------------------
// Check that type-mismatch messages are reasonable

int function (double d)
{
	return 0;
}

struct s {
} s_object;

int main ()
{
	function (s_object);
	return 0;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/local/src/src/g++/build/sun3/1.35-.0-.0/g++ -B/usr/local/src/src/g++/build/sun3/1.35-.0-.0/ -Wall -Wwrite-strings -S -v s001.C
In function int main ():
s001.C:13: aggregate value used where a float was expected


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