http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46890
Summary: compile regression from 4.5 when building scummvm's player_v4a.cpp Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: m...@use.net using 4.6.0 20101206 (experimental) [trunk revision 167481]: building the open source project, scummvm (http://scummvm.org) trunk revision : 54858 m...@matt-desktop:~/src/scummvm$ CXX=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/g++ ./configure --enable-all-engines [...] m...@matt-desktop:~/src/scummvm$ make [...] In file included from ./engines/scumm/player_v4a.h:32:0, from engines/scumm/player_v4a.cpp:27: ./sound/mods/tfmx.h:115:2: error: expected ';' after struct definition ./sound/mods/tfmx.h:115:11: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of '_resource' with no type [-fpermissive] [ ... and then several more compile errors that snowball from the first one ... ] The code in question looks like this: struct MdatResource { const byte *mdatAlloc; ///< allocated Block of Memory const byte *mdatData; ///< Start of mdat-File, might point before mdatAlloc to correct Offset uint32 mdatLen; uint16 headerFlags; // uint32 headerUnknown; // char textField[6 * 40]; struct Subsong { uint16 songstart; ///< Index in Trackstep-Table uint16 songend; ///< Last index in Trackstep-Table uint16 tempo; } subsong[kNumSubsongs]; uint32 trackstepOffset; ///< Offset in mdat uint32 sfxTableOffset; uint32 patternOffset[kMaxPatternOffsets]; ///< Offset in mdat uint32 macroOffset[kMaxMacroOffsets]; ///< Offset in mdat void boundaryCheck(const void *address, size_t accessLen = 1) const { assert(mdatAlloc <= address && (const byte *)address + accessLen <= (const byte *)mdatData + mdatLen); } } const *_resource; Configuring with g++-4.5 (4.5.1-7ubuntu2) or g++-4.4 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) fixes the compilation.