Package: g++-3.3
Version: 1:3.3.5-5
Severity: normal
Having been away from C++ for several years, I've now tried
to compile some old (circa 1999) code.
The error message
geom.c:84: parse error before ',' token
(or a dozen variants of it) are completely useless!
I note that this problem made its appearance in 2000,
and still no one has made a serious attempt to fix
the user interface. (It seems to be from the gcc2.95 to gcc3.0
transition, related to the requirement for C++ namespaces.)
However, whatever it comes from, and doubtless my code
is incorrect to modern standards as it was written before
namespaces, that error message is rather useless.
Here's the code:
box c_area(C xform_split &xf, C box& databox0, C box& databox1)
{
// Next is line 84:
C box box0inOUTin(parallelogram(inverse(xf.back), databox0).insidebox());
C box lc(inverse_image(databox1, xf.fwd));
return intersect(box0inOUTin, lc);
}
Now, that error message doesn't tell me if there is a
problem with the definition of the parallelogram class constructor,
the definition of class box, class xform_split,
the function inverse() (or even which version of inverse!)
or whatever.
Am I the first to bring this up, or are people uninterested
in the useability of g++?
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