Known Bugs in Version 1.0

The initial version of the pC++ parser still has a number of bugs. It is our hope that most of these will be fixed by the end of the first quarter of 1994. We will list here the bugs that we know about. There probably are many more.

• The operators { , .* and ->* } cannot be overloaded.

• Overloaded functions must have the same return type.

• an external declaration followed by a real one as in

  
        extern int c;
        int c;

  will result in a double declaration of the variable.

• Member functions that are declared as inline outside a class declaration will not be inlined unless they are also declared as inline within the class declaration.

• A member field in a class may not be used before it is defined. For example, the compiler will complain about the following code.

  
      class A{
          int usei(){ return i;} .
          int i;
      };

  A related problem is with templates that references a member function or field of a class parameter.

• Static member initialization does not work. For example,

  
       struct ZZ{
           static int aa;
       };
        int ZZ::aa = 1;

• Using a symbolic parameter name more than once in a prototype will cause a parse error.

  
       int doublename(int a, float a);

• A basic block which occurs as the first thing in a function will not work.

  
       void foo() {
          { int x,y;
          }
       }

• The C++ alternate constructor form for base types has been temporarily disabled.

  
       int i = int(33);  // use  (int) 33; instead.  fix coming soon.

In addition to these errors, templates and collections cannot be used together in version 1.0. Exception Handling is not supported on most platforms.