On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:08 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:

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this is a reminder for you to have a look at your packages that fail in the BETA distribution (which has GCC 4.3 as its compiler). If you think that the compiler is at fault feel free to report these issues back to me or file a bugzilla for them.

A couple of my packages (and >100 others it seems) are failing with

error: 'foo' was not declared in this scope

I'm rather clueless about C++ issues, so I don't have a clear idea if this is indeed a bug in all these programs or if it's a gcc problem.

no these are really missing include files in your sources. What I've seen up to now were roughly 90% of either missing "#include <cstring>" or "#include <cstdlib>".

But even if these are bugs, wouldn't it have been prudent to make this a warning, for couple of releases, before turning it into an error?

well, "function not declared" has been an error in C++ before. What changed is that some files are not any longer pulled in automatically by others to get closer to the standard (please correct me here if I'm wrong). Unfortunately I don't see how a compiler should do something like "include this header but prefix all declared functions with a warning" ... -- with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen), Ruediger Oertel (ro@novell.com,ro@suse.de,bugfinder@t-online.de) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux Fatou 2.6.22.9-0.4-default #1 SMP 2007/10/05 21:32:04 UTC x86_64 Key fingerprint = 17DC 6553 86A7 384B 53C5 CA5C 3CE4 F2E7 23F2 B417 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)