On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Rodolfo Schulz de Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'd like to know why this rather simple code doesn't compile on gcc > (from 4.2 to 4.3, haven't tested on earlier compilers): This is not the correct mailing list for this really, please use gcc-help@ or in this case a C++ language list.
> Now... why the compiler assumed that I'm defining a function returning > 'test' and accepting a pointer to a function returning 'data'? If I > wanted this, I'd write: test a(data(*)()), isn't it? What's the catch? Because of an ambiguous in the C++ syntax, the C++ standard decided that this will be a function named a returning the type test and taking an argument of the type data. This is not a bug in GCC or the C++ standard either. Thanks, Andrew Pinski
