vaughan%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@MCC.COM (Paul Vaughan) (12/02/89)
You may not consider this a bug, it's really just an
inappropriate error message. The following program
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int barf() { return 1;}
foo(int = barf) {} // line 4
main(){}
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when compiled with g++ 1.36.1, gives the error message
new.cc:4: sorry, not implemented: that operation not supported for default parameters
which is the error it used to give when I would use new to make a
default parameter. Note that the error is really a type mismatch,
caused by typing "barf" instead of "barf()". I had been thinking
there was still some kind of problem with using new to make default
parameters, but I hadn't been able to nail it down. Now I understand
why it was so difficult to isolate.