C++ and useful error messages

[Gerald Pfeifer]

I predict that after the release of GCC 3.0 we will see an avalanche of
bug reports/complaints that g++ fails for the most simple kind of input:

  #include <vector>
  class C {
    vector<int> vi;
    };

  % gccvs x.cc
  x.cc:3: syntax error before `;' token

Yes, this program is not ISO C++, but still this kind of failure mode
is hardly acceptable, IMNSHO.

(I noticed that the libstdc++ folks do provide a backwards-compatibility
mode when one includes <vector.h>, not <vector>. Excellent idea!)

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/