Re: Bug#61081: Ambiguious C++ constructs causes c++ compiler to choke on apt compile
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Randolph Chung wrote:
> In several instances, apt has definitions where a variable name is the same
> as a type definition (usually an enum). For example, in orderlist.h, there's
This, is a bug in the compiler as far I can see. Consider that C itself
has many such constructs, like 'struct stat' vs 'stat'. In fact, in C
enum/struct are somewhat seperate namespaces from the variable/function
space. C++ aliases them together with a precidence. I think it is obvoisly
a compiler bug due to the way it reports the error, notice it does not say
duplicate definition at the enum but instead gets confused in usage.
I do not have a C++ standard so I cannot be sure, but this seems very
reasonable.
Jason
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