http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53573
Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #7 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-06-05
10:02:25 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> The suggested work around in the error message 'adding -fpermissive' to
> gcc-4.7.0 does not fix the problem as suggested by the error message. This
> would suggest the compiler is not displaying the correct error message for the
> problem.
>
> g++ -fpermissive test.cpp
>
> Still generates:
>
> test.cpp: In instantiation of ‘T f(T) [with T = int]’:
> test.cpp:27:9: required from here
> test.cpp:18:12: error: ‘g’ was not declared in this scope, and no declarations
> were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation
> [-fpermissive]
> test.cpp:21:5: note: ‘int g(int)’ declared here, later in the translation unit
>
With GCC 4.8 revision 187148, -fpermissive generates a warning as it should.
However, -fpermissive is not meant to fix anything, it is just a work-around to
make non-standard code compile.
I am not sure if this is a bug or not, so I am not touching the status.