http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53573
--- Comment #8 from Keean Schupke <ke...@fry-it.com> 2012-06-05 10:15:18 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) Have a read of the C++ standard, the example given in: N3242=11-0012 14.6 Name Resolution: paragraph 10 Which I have pasted above into comment #4 and the extract from C++ Special Edition (Technicalities C.13.8.3) which is pasted in comment #3. How do you interpret these two? > (In reply to comment #6) > > The suggested work around in the error message 'adding -fpermissive' to > > gcc-4.7.0 does not fix the problem as suggested by the error message. This > > would suggest the compiler is not displaying the correct error message for > > the > > problem. > > > > g++ -fpermissive test.cpp > > > > Still generates: > > > > test.cpp: In instantiation of ‘T f(T) [with T = int]’: > > test.cpp:27:9: required from here > > test.cpp:18:12: error: ‘g’ was not declared in this scope, and no > > declarations > > were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation > > [-fpermissive] > > test.cpp:21:5: note: ‘int g(int)’ declared here, later in the translation > > unit > > > > With GCC 4.8 revision 187148, -fpermissive generates a warning as it should. > However, -fpermissive is not meant to fix anything, it is just a work-around > to > make non-standard code compile. > > I am not sure if this is a bug or not, so I am not touching the status.
