Re: [Openexr-devel] Compiling with gcc4.0.1 - compilation error andfix

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Kevin Wheatley wrote:

> Florian Kainz wrote:
> > Thank you for pointing this out.  I think this is a bug in
> > gcc 4.0.1; you should probably report it to the gcc maintainers.
>
> I don't think it is a bug, at least according to the C++ standard. If
> no Image is in scope at the point of the friend declaration, it is
> going to inject the Image class into the ImageChannel scope. This is
> different to the pre-standard ARM, where it would have injected it
> into the innermost non class scope (from memory my ARM is at home :-)

I must agree that GCC 4.0.1 is doing the right thing here and the code 
has a bug.

The error/warning capabilities of GCC 4.X are a clear improvement over 
its predecessors.

Bob
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