G++ thinks that a nested type is a nested class and it expects a constructor,
destructor, or type conversion before the object referenced in the class is
processed when compiling a function of a nested type defined in the header file
of a templated class.
Header file below
//C++ STL classes have 12 type definitions, so that every class
// defines the following type names as nested types:
//
// value_type, pointer, reference, const_pointer, const_reference
// iterator, const_iterator, reverse_iterator, const_reverse_iterator
// allocator_type, size_type, diference_type
typedef Etype& reference; //list<...>::value_type to access
//whatever type this list holds
template <class Etype>
typename list<Etype>::reference
list<Etype>::const_iterator*() const
{
return ptr->element;
}
The compiler complains on the line containing list<Etype>::const_iterator*()
const and it says
error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before 'list'
This particular functions implementation was written by my Data Structures and
Software Principles professor, Jason Zych, a Computer Science Professor at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The code works perfectly fine
using the University's Sun CC(C++) compiler on their Sun Machines. The CC
compiler is included in Sun Microsystem's Sun Studio 9 for Solaris. However, I
want to be able to compile my code on my home pc and my laptop and right now
the best option for me is to use g++ since Sun does not include its CC compiler
in the Linux version of Solaris 9 and the Solaris version of Sun Studio costs
$1000 plus the Sun sparc hardware needed to run it is quite expensive. I
recently updated from GCC 3.3.3 to GCC 4.0.0 with an update to Fedora Core 4
from Fedora Core 3 and the problem occurs using the latest release of GCC. I
hope that the next update to GCC will include a fix to this bug and that it
will be released as soon as possible.
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Summary: g++ 4.0.0 has issues with the typedef of reference
Product: gcc
Version: 4.0.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: critical
Priority: P1
Component: c++
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: jcurran2 at uiuc dot edu
CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22227
