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+ GCC Bugs
+
+ The latest version of this document is always available at
+ [1]http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+Table of Contents
+
+ * [2]Reporting Bugs
+ + [3]What we need
+ + [4]What we DON'T want
+ + [5]Where to post it
+ + [6]Detailed bug reporting instructions
+ + [7]Detailed bug reporting instructions for GNAT
+ + [8]Detailed bug reporting instructions when using a precompiled
+ header
+ * [9]Frequently Reported Bugs in GCC
+ + [10]C++
+ o [11]Missing features
+ o [12]Bugs fixed in the 3.4 series
+ + [13]Fortran
+ * [14]Non-bugs
+ + [15]General
+ + [16]C
+ + [17]C++
+ o [18]Common problems when upgrading the compiler
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+ Reporting Bugs
+
+ The main purpose of a bug report is to enable us to fix the bug. The most
+ important prerequisite for this is that the report must be complete and
+ self-contained.
+
+ Before you report a bug, please check the [19]list of well-known bugs and,
+ if possible, try a current development snapshot. If you want to report a bug
+ with versions of GCC before 3.4 we strongly recommend upgrading to the
+ current release first.
+
+ Before reporting that GCC compiles your code incorrectly, please compile it
+ with gcc -Wall and see whether this shows anything wrong with your code that
+ could be the cause instead of a bug in GCC.
+
+Summarized bug reporting instructions
+
+ After this summary, you'll find detailed bug reporting instructions, that
+ explain how to obtain some of the information requested in this summary.
+
+ What we need
+
+ Please include in your bug report all of the following items, the first
+ three of which can be obtained from the output of gcc -v:
+ * the exact version of GCC;
+ * the system type;
+ * the options given when GCC was configured/built;
+ * the complete command line that triggers the bug;
+ * the compiler output (error messages, warnings, etc.); and
+ * the preprocessed file (*.i*) that triggers the bug, generated by adding
+ -save-temps to the complete compilation command, or, in the case of a
+ bug report for the GNAT front end, a complete set of source files (see
+ below).
+
+ What we do not want
+
+ * A source file that #includes header files that are left out of the bug
+ report (see above)
+ * That source file and a collection of header files.
+ * An attached archive (tar, zip, shar, whatever) containing all (or some
+ :-) of the above.
+ * A code snippet that won't cause the compiler to produce the exact output
+ mentioned in the bug report (e.g., a snippet with just a few lines
+ around the one that apparently triggers the bug, with some pieces
+ replaced with ellipses or comments for extra obfuscation :-)
+ * The location (URL) of the package that failed to build (we won't
+ download it, anyway, since you've already given us what we need to
+ duplicate the bug, haven't you? :-)
+ * An error that occurs only some of the times a certain file is compiled,
+ such that retrying a sufficient number of times results in a successful
+ compilation; this is a symptom of a hardware problem, not of a compiler
+ bug (sorry)
+ * Assembly files (*.s) produced by the compiler, or any binary files, such
+ as object files, executables, core files, or precompiled header files
+ * Duplicate bug reports, or reports of bugs already fixed in the
+ development tree, especially those that have already been reported as
+ fixed last week :-)
+ * Bugs in the assembler, the linker or the C library. These are separate
+ projects, with separate mailing lists and different bug reporting
+ procedures
+ * Bugs in releases or snapshots of GCC not issued by the GNU Project.
+ Report them to whoever provided you with the release
+ * Questions about the correctness or the expected behavior of certain
+ constructs that are not GCC extensions. Ask them in forums dedicated to
+ the discussion of the programming language
+
+ Where to post it
+
+ Please submit your bug report directly to the [20]GCC bug database.
+ Alternatively, you can use the gccbug script that mails your bug report to
+ the bug database.
+ Only if all this is absolutely impossible, mail all information to
+ [21]gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org.
+
+Detailed bug reporting instructions
+
+ Please refer to the [22]next section when reporting bugs in GNAT, the Ada
+ compiler, or to the [23]one after that when reporting bugs that appear when
+ using a precompiled header.
+
+ In general, all the information we need can be obtained by collecting the
+ command line below, as well as its output and the preprocessed file it
+ generates.
+
+ gcc -v -save-temps all-your-options source-file
+
+ The only excuses to not send us the preprocessed sources are (i) if you've
+ found a bug in the preprocessor, (ii) if you've reduced the testcase to a
+ small file that doesn't include any other file or (iii) if the bug appears
+ only when using precompiled headers. If you can't post the preprocessed
+ sources because they're proprietary code, then try to create a small file
+ that triggers the same problem.
+
+ Since we're supposed to be able to re-create the assembly output (extension
+ .s), you usually should not include it in the bug report, although you may
+ want to post parts of it to point out assembly code you consider to be
+ wrong.
+
+ Please avoid posting an archive (.tar, .shar or .zip); we generally need
+ just a single file to reproduce the bug (the .i/.ii/.f preprocessed file),
+ and, by storing it in an archive, you're just making our volunteers' jobs
+ harder. Only when your bug report requires multiple source files to be
+ reproduced should you use an archive. This is, for example, the case if you
+ are using INCLUDE directives in Fortran code, which are not processed by the
+ preprocessor, but the compiler. In that case, we need the main file and all
+ INCLUDEd files. In any case, make sure the compiler version, error message,
+ etc, are included in the body of your bug report as plain text, even if
+ needlessly duplicated as part of an archive.
+
+Detailed bug reporting instructions for GNAT
+
+ See the [24]previous section for bug reporting instructions for GCC language
+ implementations other than Ada.
+
+ Bug reports have to contain at least the following information in order to
+ be useful:
+ * the exact version of GCC, as shown by "gcc -v";
+ * the system type;
+ * the options when GCC was configured/built;
+ * the exact command line passed to the gcc program triggering the bug (not
+ just the flags passed to gnatmake, but gnatmake prints the parameters it
+ passed to gcc)
+ * a collection of source files for reproducing the bug, preferably a
+ minimal set (see below);
+ * a description of the expected behavior;
+ * a description of actual behavior.
+
+ If your code depends on additional source files (usually package
+ specifications), submit the source code for these compilation units in a
+ single file that is acceptable input to gnatchop, i.e. contains no non-Ada
+ text. If the compilation terminated normally, you can usually obtain a list
+ of dependencies using the "gnatls -d main_unit" command, where main_unit is
+ the file name of the main compilation unit (which is also passed to gcc).
+
+ If you report a bug which causes the compiler to print a bug box, include
+ that bug box in your report, and do not forget to send all the source files
+ listed after the bug box along with your report.
+
+ If you use gnatprep, be sure to send in preprocessed sources (unless you
+ have to report a bug in gnatprep).
+
+ When you have checked that your report meets these criteria, please submit
+ it according to our [25]generic instructions. (If you use a mailing list for
+ reporting, please include an "[Ada]" tag in the subject.)
+
+Detailed bug reporting instructions when using a precompiled header
+
+ If you're encountering a bug when using a precompiled header, the first
+ thing to do is to delete the precompiled header, and try running the same
+ GCC command again. If the bug happens again, the bug doesn't really involve
+ precompiled headers, please report it without using them by following the
+ instructions [26]above.
+
+ If you've found a bug while building a precompiled header (for instance, the
+ compiler crashes), follow the usual instructions [27]above.
+
+ If you've found a real precompiled header bug, what we'll need to reproduce
+ it is the sources to build the precompiled header (as a single .i file), the
+ source file that uses the precompiled header, any other headers that source
+ file includes, and the command lines that you used to build the precompiled
+ header and to use it.
+
+ Please don't send us the actual precompiled header. It is likely to be very
+ large and we can't use it to reproduce the problem.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+ Frequently Reported Bugs in GCC
+
+ This is a list of bugs in GCC that are reported very often, but not yet
+ fixed. While it is certainly better to fix bugs instead of documenting them,
+ this document might save people the effort of writing a bug report when the
+ bug is already well-known.
+
+ There are many reasons why a reported bug doesn't get fixed. It might be
+ difficult to fix, or fixing it might break compatibility. Often, reports get
+ a low priority when there is a simple work-around. In particular, bugs
+ caused by invalid code have a simple work-around: fix the code.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+C++
+
+ Missing features
+
+ The export keyword is not implemented.
+ Most C++ compilers (G++ included) do not yet implement export, which
+ is necessary for separate compilation of template declarations and
+ definitions. Without export, a template definition must be in scope
+ to be used. The obvious workaround is simply to place all definitions
+ in the header itself. Alternatively, the compilation unit containing
+ template definitions may be included from the header.
+
+ Bugs fixed in the 3.4 series
+
+ The following bugs are present up to (and including) GCC 3.3.x. They have
+ been fixed in 3.4.0.
+
+ Two-stage name-lookup.
+ GCC did not implement two-stage name-lookup (also see [28]below).
+
+ Covariant return types.
+ GCC did not implement non-trivial covariant returns.
+
+ Parse errors for "simple" code.
+ GCC gave parse errors for seemingly simple code, such as
+
+struct A
+{
+ A();
+ A(int);
+};
+
+struct B
+{
+ B(A);
+ B(A,A);
+ void foo();
+};
+
+A bar()
+{
+ B b(A(),A(1)); // Variable b, initialized with two temporaries
+ B(A(2)).foo(); // B temporary, initialized with A temporary
+ return (A()); // return A temporary
+}
+
+ Although being valid code, each of the three lines with a comment was
+ rejected by GCC. The work-arounds for older compiler versions
+ proposed below do not change the semantics of the programs at all.
+
+ The problem in the first case was that GCC started to parse the
+ declaration of b as a function called b returning B, taking a
+ function returning A as an argument. When it encountered the 1, it
+ was too late. To show the compiler that this should be really an
+ expression, a comma operator with a dummy argument could be used:
+
+B b((0,A()),A(1));
+
+ The work-around for simpler cases like the second one was to add
+ additional parentheses around the expressions that were mistaken as
+ declarations:
+
+(B(A(2))).foo();
+
+ In the third case, however, additional parentheses were causing the
+ problems: The compiler interpreted A() as a function (taking no
+ arguments, returning A), and (A()) as a cast lacking an expression to
+ be casted, hence the parse error. The work-around was to omit the
+ parentheses:
+
+return A();
+
+ This problem occurred in a number of variants; in throw statements,
+ people also frequently put the object in parentheses.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+Fortran
+
+ G77 bugs are documented in the G77 manual rather than explicitly listed
+ here. Please see [29]Known Causes of Trouble with GNU Fortran in the G77
+ manual.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+ Non-bugs
+
+ The following are not actually bugs, but are reported often enough to
+ warrant a mention here.
+
+ It is not always a bug in the compiler, if code which "worked" in a previous
+ version, is now rejected. Earlier versions of GCC sometimes were less picky
+ about standard conformance and accepted invalid source code. In addition,
+ programming languages themselves change, rendering code invalid that used to
+ be conforming (this holds especially for C++). In either case, you should
+ update your code to match recent language standards.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+General
+
+ Problems with floating point numbers - the [30]most often reported non-bug.
+ In a number of cases, GCC appears to perform floating point
+ computations incorrectly. For example, the C++ program
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main()
+{
+ double a = 0.5;
+ double b = 0.01;
+ std::cout << (int)(a / b) << std::endl;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+ might print 50 on some systems and optimization levels, and 49 on
+ others.
+
+ This is the result of rounding: The computer cannot represent all
+ real numbers exactly, so it has to use approximations. When computing
+ with approximation, the computer needs to round to the nearest
+ representable number.
+
+ This is not a bug in the compiler, but an inherent limitation of the
+ floating point types. Please study [31]this paper for more
+ information.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+C
+
+ Increment/decrement operator (++/--) not working as expected - a [32]problem
+ with many variations.
+ The following expressions have unpredictable results:
+
+x[i]=++i
+foo(i,++i)
+i*(++i) /* special case with foo=="operator*" */
+std::cout << i << ++i /* foo(foo(std::cout,i),++i) */
+
+ since the i without increment can be evaluated before or after ++i.
+
+ The C and C++ standards have the notion of "sequence points".
+ Everything that happens between two sequence points happens in an
+ unspecified order, but it has to happen after the first and before
+ the second sequence point. The end of a statement and a function call
+ are examples for sequence points, whereas assignments and the comma
+ between function arguments are not.
+
+ Modifying a value twice between two sequence points as shown in the
+ following examples is even worse:
+
+i=++i
+foo(++i,++i)
+(++i)*(++i) /* special case with foo=="operator*" */
+std::cout << ++i << ++i /* foo(foo(std::cout,++i),++i) */
+
+ This leads to undefined behavior (i.e. the compiler can do anything).
+
+ Casting does not work as expected when optimization is turned on.
+ This is often caused by a violation of aliasing rules, which are part
+ of the ISO C standard. These rules say that a program is invalid if
+ you try to access a variable through a pointer of an incompatible
+ type. This is happening in the following example where a short is
+ accessed through a pointer to integer (the code assumes 16-bit shorts
+ and 32-bit ints):
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main()
+{
+ short a[2];
+
+ a[0]=0x1111;
+ a[1]=0x1111;
+
+ *(int *)a = 0x22222222; /* violation of aliasing rules */
+
+ printf("%x %x\n", a[0], a[1]);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+ The aliasing rules were designed to allow compilers more aggressive
+ optimization. Basically, a compiler can assume that all changes to
+ variables happen through pointers or references to variables of a
+ type compatible to the accessed variable. Dereferencing a pointer
+ that violates the aliasing rules results in undefined behavior.
+
+ In the case above, the compiler may assume that no access through an
+ integer pointer can change the array a, consisting of shorts. Thus,
+ printf may be called with the original values of a[0] and a[1]. What
+ really happens is up to the compiler and may change with architecture
+ and optimization level.
+
+ Recent versions of GCC turn on the option -fstrict-aliasing (which
+ allows alias-based optimizations) by default with -O2. And some
+ architectures then really print "1111 1111" as result. Without
+ optimization the executable will generate the "expected" output "2222
+ 2222".
+
+ To disable optimizations based on alias-analysis for faulty legacy
+ code, the option -fno-strict-aliasing can be used as a work-around.
+
+ The option -Wstrict-aliasing (which is included in -Wall) warns about
+ some - but not all - cases of violation of aliasing rules when
+ -fstrict-aliasing is active.
+
+ To fix the code above, you can use a union instead of a cast (note
+ that this is a GCC extension which might not work with other
+ compilers):
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main()
+{
+ union
+ {
+ short a[2];
+ int i;
+ } u;
+
+ u.a[0]=0x1111;
+ u.a[1]=0x1111;
+
+ u.i = 0x22222222;
+
+ printf("%x %x\n", u.a[0], u.a[1]);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+ Now the result will always be "2222 2222".
+
+ For some more insight into the subject, please have a look at
+ [33]this article.
+
+ Cannot use preprocessor directive in macro arguments.
+ Let me guess... you used an older version of GCC to compile code that
+ looks something like this:
+
+ memcpy(dest, src,
+#ifdef PLATFORM1
+ 12
+#else
+ 24
+#endif
+ );
+
+ and you got a whole pile of error messages:
+
+test.c:11: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within macro arg
+test.c:11: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within macro arg
+test.c:11: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within macro arg
+test.c: In function `foo':
+test.c:6: undefined or invalid # directive
+test.c:8: undefined or invalid # directive
+test.c:9: parse error before `24'
+test.c:10: undefined or invalid # directive
+
+ This is because your C library's <string.h> happens to define memcpy
+ as a macro - which is perfectly legitimate. In recent versions of
+ glibc, for example, printf is among those functions which are
+ implemented as macros.
+
+ Versions of GCC prior to 3.3 did not allow you to put #ifdef (or any
+ other preprocessor directive) inside the arguments of a macro. The
+ code therefore would not compile.
+
+ As of GCC 3.3 this kind of construct is always accepted and the
+ preprocessor will probably do what you expect, but see the manual for
+ detailed semantics.
+
+ However, this kind of code is not portable. It is "undefined
+ behavior" according to the C standard; that means different compilers
+ may do different things with it. It is always possible to rewrite
+ code which uses conditionals inside macros so that it doesn't. You
+ could write the above example
+
+#ifdef PLATFORM1
+ memcpy(dest, src, 12);
+#else
+ memcpy(dest, src, 24);
+#endif
+
+ This is a bit more typing, but I personally think it's better style
+ in addition to being more portable.
+
+ Cannot initialize a static variable with stdin.
+ This has nothing to do with GCC, but people ask us about it a lot.
+ Code like this:
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+FILE *yyin = stdin;
+
+ will not compile with GNU libc, because stdin is not a constant. This
+ was done deliberately, to make it easier to maintain binary
+ compatibility when the type FILE needs to be changed. It is
+ surprising for people used to traditional Unix C libraries, but it is
+ permitted by the C standard.
+
+ This construct commonly occurs in code generated by old versions of
+ lex or yacc. We suggest you try regenerating the parser with a
+ current version of flex or bison, respectively. In your own code, the
+ appropriate fix is to move the initialization to the beginning of
+ main.
+
+ There is a common misconception that the GCC developers are
+ responsible for GNU libc. These are in fact two entirely separate
+ projects; please check the [34]GNU libc web pages for details.
+ _________________________________________________________________
+
+C++
+
+ Nested classes can access private members and types of the containing class.
+ Defect report 45 clarifies that nested classes are members of the
+ class they are nested in, and so are granted access to private
+ members of that class.
+
+ G++ emits two copies of constructors and destructors.
+ In general there are three types of constructors (and destructors).
+
+ 1. The complete object constructor/destructor.
+ 2. The base object constructor/destructor.
+ 3. The allocating constructor/deallocating destructor.
+
+ The first two are different, when virtual base classes are involved.
+
+ Global destructors are not run in the correct order.
+ Global destructors should be run in the reverse order of their
+ constructors completing. In most cases this is the same as the
+ reverse order of constructors starting, but sometimes it is
+ different, and that is important. You need to compile and link your
+ programs with --use-cxa-atexit. We have not turned this switch on by
+ default, as it requires a cxa aware runtime library (libc, glibc, or
+ equivalent).
+
+ Classes in exception specifiers must be complete types.
+ [15.4]/1 tells you that you cannot have an incomplete type, or
+ pointer to incomplete (other than cv void *) in an exception
+ specification.
+
+ Exceptions don't work in multithreaded applications.
+ You need to rebuild g++ and libstdc++ with --enable-threads.
+ Remember, C++ exceptions are not like hardware interrupts. You cannot
+ throw an exception in one thread and catch it in another. You cannot
+ throw an exception from a signal handler and catch it in the main
+ thread.
+
+ Templates, scoping, and digraphs.
+ If you have a class in the global namespace, say named X, and want to
+ give it as a template argument to some other class, say std::vector,
+ then std::vector<::X> fails with a parser error.
+
+ The reason is that the standard mandates that the sequence <: is
+ treated as if it were the token [. (There are several such
+ combinations of characters - they are called digraphs.) Depending on
+ the version, the compiler then reports a parse error before the
+ character : (the colon before X) or a missing closing bracket ].
+
+ The simplest way to avoid this is to write std::vector< ::X>, i.e.
+ place a space between the opening angle bracket and the scope
+ operator.
+
+ Copy constructor access check while initializing a reference.
+ Consider this code:
+
+class A
+{
+public:
+ A();
+
+private:
+ A(const A&); // private copy ctor
+};
+
+A makeA(void);
+void foo(const A&);
+
+void bar(void)
+{
+ foo(A()); // error, copy ctor is not accessible
+ foo(makeA()); // error, copy ctor is not accessible
+
+ A a1;
+ foo(a1); // OK, a1 is a lvalue
+}
+
+ Starting with GCC 3.4.0, binding an rvalue to a const reference
+ requires an accessible copy constructor. This might be surprising at
+ first sight, especially since most popular compilers do not correctly
+ implement this rule.
+
+ The C++ Standard says that a temporary object should be created in
+ this context and its contents filled with a copy of the object we are
+ trying to bind to the reference; it also says that the temporary copy
+ can be elided, but the semantic constraints (eg. accessibility) of
+ the copy constructor still have to be checked.
+
+ For further information, you can consult the following paragraphs of
+ the C++ standard: [dcl.init.ref]/5, bullet 2, sub-bullet 1, and
+ [class.temporary]/2.
+
+ Common problems when upgrading the compiler
+
+ ABI changes
+
+ The C++ application binary interface (ABI) consists of two components: the
+ first defines how the elements of classes are laid out, how functions are
+ called, how function names are mangled, etc; the second part deals with the
+ internals of the objects in libstdc++. Although we strive for a non-changing
+ ABI, so far we have had to modify it with each major release. If you change
+ your compiler to a different major release you must recompile all libraries
+ that contain C++ code. If you fail to do so you risk getting linker errors
+ or malfunctioning programs. Some of our Java support libraries also contain
+ C++ code, so you might want to recompile all libraries to be safe. It should
+ not be necessary to recompile if you have changed to a bug-fix release of
+ the same version of the compiler; bug-fix releases are careful to avoid ABI
+ changes. See also the [35]compatibility section of the GCC manual.
+
+ Remark: A major release is designated by a change to the first or second
+ component of the two- or three-part version number. A minor (bug-fix)
+ release is designated by a change to the third component only. Thus GCC 3.2
+ and 3.3 are major releases, while 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 are bug-fix releases for
+ GCC 3.3. With the 3.4 series we are introducing a new naming scheme; the
+ first release of this series is 3.4.0 instead of just 3.4.
+
+ Standard conformance
+
+ With each release, we try to make G++ conform closer to the ISO C++ standard
+ (available at [36]http://www.ncits.org/cplusplus.htm). We have also
+ implemented some of the core and library defect reports (available at
+ [37]http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html &
+ [38]http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html
+ respectively).
+
+ Non-conforming legacy code that worked with older versions of GCC may be
+ rejected by more recent compilers. There is no command-line switch to ensure
+ compatibility in general, because trying to parse standard-conforming and
+ old-style code at the same time would render the C++ frontend
+ unmaintainable. However, some non-conforming constructs are allowed when the
+ command-line option -fpermissive is used.
+
+ Two milestones in standard conformance are GCC 3.0 (including a major
+ overhaul of the standard library) and the 3.4.0 version (with its new C++
+ parser).
+
+ New in GCC 3.0
+
+ * The standard library is much more conformant, and uses the std::
+ namespace (which is now a real namespace, not an alias for ::).
+ * The standard header files for the c library don't end with .h, but begin
+ with c (i.e. <cstdlib> rather than <stdlib.h>). The .h names are still
+ available, but are deprecated.
+ * <strstream> is deprecated, use <sstream> instead.
+ * streambuf::seekoff & streambuf::seekpos are private, instead use
+ streambuf::pubseekoff & streambuf::pubseekpos respectively.
+ * If std::operator << (std::ostream &, long long) doesn't exist, you need
+ to recompile libstdc++ with --enable-long-long.
+
+ If you get lots of errors about things like cout not being found, you've
+ most likely forgotten to tell the compiler to look in the std:: namespace.
+ There are several ways to do this:
+ * Say std::cout at the call. This is the most explicit way of saying what
+ you mean.
+ * Say using std::cout; somewhere before the call. You will need to do this
+ for each function or type you wish to use from the standard library.
+ * Say using namespace std; somewhere before the call. This is the
+ quick-but-dirty fix. This brings the whole of the std:: namespace into
+ scope. Never do this in a header file, as every user of your header file
+ will be affected by this decision.
+
+ New in GCC 3.4.0
+
+ The new parser brings a lot of improvements, especially concerning
+ name-lookup.
+ * The "implicit typename" extension got removed (it was already deprecated
+ since GCC 3.1), so that the following code is now rejected, see [14.6]:
+
+template <typename> struct A
+{
+ typedef int X;
+};
+
+template <typename T> struct B
+{
+ A<T>::X x; // error
+ typename A<T>::X y; // OK
+};
+
+B<void> b;
+
+ * For similar reasons, the following code now requires the template
+ keyword, see [14.2]:
+
+template <typename> struct A
+{
+ template <int> struct X {};
+};
+
+template <typename T> struct B
+{
+ typename A<T>::X<0> x; // error
+ typename A<T>::template X<0> y; // OK
+};
+
+B<void> b;
+
+ * We now have two-stage name-lookup, so that the following code is
+ rejected, see [14.6]/9:
+
+template <typename T> int foo()
+{
+ return i; // error
+}
+
+ * This also affects members of base classes, see [14.6.2]:
+
+template <typename> struct A
+{
+ int i, j;
+};
+
+template <typename T> struct B : A<T>
+{
+ int foo1() { return i; } // error
+ int foo2() { return this->i; } // OK
+ int foo3() { return B<T>::i; } // OK
+ int foo4() { return A<T>::i; } // OK
+
+ using A<T>::j;
+ int foo5() { return j; } // OK
+};
+
+ In addition to the problems listed above, the manual contains a section on
+ [39]Common Misunderstandings with GNU C++.
+
+References
+
+ 1. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html
+ 2. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#report
+ 3. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#need
+ 4. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#dontwant
+ 5. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#where
+ 6. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#detailed
+ 7. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#gnat
+ 8. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#pch
+ 9. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known
+ 10. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#cxx
+ 11. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#missing
+ 12. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#fixed34
+ 13. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#fortran
+ 14. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs
+ 15. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs_general
+ 16. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs_c
+ 17. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs_cxx
+ 18. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#upgrading
+ 19. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known
+ 20. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/
+ 21. mailto:gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
+ 22. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#gnat
+ 23. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#pch
+ 24. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#detailed
+ 25. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#where
+ 26. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#detailed
+ 27. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#detailed
+ 28. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#new34
+ 29. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/g77/Trouble.html
+ 30. http://gcc.gnu.org/PR323
+ 31. http://www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.ps
+ 32. http://gcc.gnu.org/PR11751
+ 33. http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/08/11/0001.html
+ 34. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
+ 35. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compatibility.html
+ 36. http://www.ncits.org/cplusplus.htm
+ 37. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html
+ 38. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html
+ 39. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Misunderstandings.html