Mark Wielaard wrote: > > The patch is neccessary and does work for me (gcc 3.0.4 debian > prerelease). Does anybody know if it is a real fix or something bogus?
Isn't it just that "::" is a valid operator in C++ (but not in C)? I have no idea what a line of code that uses three : operators in a row could possibly mean (in either language) and I can't find the source code file to get context. But my guess is that the tokenizer is seeing :: and thinking "ooh, class member operator" (or whatever that operator is called in c++), and it doesn't occur to it that it might actually be two separate ":" operators. Now whether that means the fix is *real* or not is unclear to me. C is pretty good at avoiding these kinds of ambiguous situations, but I bet that: int *a; int b; c = b/*a; wouldn't divide b by the value pointed to by a, either :) Anyone know what these three ":" operators are actually supposed to be doing in this case? At first I assumed that it was in the context of some wacky nested use of the ternary operator, but even then the closest you can get is a?b?c?d:e:f:g - the three ":"s must be separated by something. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
