Gabriel Dos Reis - Re: non-ambiguous typedefs (original) (raw)

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• From: Gabriel Dos Reis
• To: Howard Hinnant
• Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
• Date: 09 Nov 2005 04:07:20 +0100
• Subject: Re: non-ambiguous typedefs
• References: <2B7EC321-0116-4E43-8415-CB27B4735150@apple.com>

Howard Hinnant hhinnant@apple.com writes:

| Hi All, | | I'm wondering if the following behavior is: | | 1. An already reported bug. | 2. Not reported, I need to file a bugzilla. | 3. Disputed. | | Here's the test case: | | typedef unsigned short ushort; | | namespace X | { | typedef unsigned short ushort; | } | | using namespace X; | | int main() | { | ushort us = 0; | } | | We currently get: | | error: 'ushort' was not declared in this scope

Plain compiler bug. I'm not aware of any existing report to that effect, though GCC/g++ currently is completely confused when it sees apparently ambiguous declarations, and would report non-existent declaration. That needs fixing.

-- Gaby

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