Bug#829604: g++-6: In c++11/14 mode whitespaces are ignored between enum type and ::

[Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com>]

Package: g++-6
Version: 6.1.1-8
Severity: normal

Dear maintainer,

I've got a wired behavior with the attached test case:

I can compile the file without problems when I specify -std=c++03.

However, with -std=c++11 I get an error in line 11:

error: enum test::enu is not a class or namespace:
  friend test::enu ::wow();

This happens with both g++5 and g++6.

Obviously, when I remove the "::" before "wow" then I get an error in line 35
because now the friend declaration is assumed to be in the namespace "fun" (as
it should be) and the "wow" function defined in the global namespace is not
assumed to be friend.

If I declare wow() to be of return type "int" then everything works as
expected.

Since the code in question that brought me here is in part generated by bison
(cf: #811992) the only way I currently see to quell this problem and fix that
bug
is to force -std=c++03.

Best,
Gert



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namespace test {
  enum enu {A, B};
};

test::enu wow();

namespace fun {
    class G {
      friend test::enu ::wow();
      G();
      test::enu  k; 
    };
    
    class H   {
    public: 
      H();
      test::enu  i; 
    };
    G::G():
      k(test::A)
    {
    }
    
    H::H()
    {
       i = wow(); 
    }
}

test::enu wow()
{
  fun::G g;
  return g.k; 
}
  
  

int main(int, char**)
{
  fun::morefun::H h; 
  return static_cast<int>(h.i); 
}