"Julian Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hmmm... I just read through the bug reports you cited. Sounds to me like | this is still somewhat of an open issue, as to whether the compiler should | issue an error in these cases or simply silently discard any templated | function as a possible match for an operation involving an unnamed type. As
You're right, the issue is still open. I think people should be careful in closing PRs related to that issue. I can see the reasoning behind the error but it does not make any sense to me. | was pointed out in the discussion, this is a *disastrous* change in the | standard behavior of gcc because it essentially makes it impossible to | safely use an unnamed enum type in an arithmetic operation. There is bound | to be some template function overload declared in some header file somewhere | that suddenly makes your code not work. I am shocked that there is no | compiler flag made available to restore the previous behavior, especially in | light of the fact that the disposition of this issue remains unresolved. I Please consider filling a PR and expliclty mention the fact that the issue is under discussion withing the C++ committee. | have checked several other C++ compilers now (Intel icc 8.1 and IBM xlC 7.0, | for instance) and they all accept my example. -- Gaby
