Bug 66541

Summary: unexpected error report: "var was not declared in this scope"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Rafal Dabrowa <rdabrowa>
Component: gccAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Rafal Dabrowa 2002-06-11 22:17:21 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The following code results with compiler error report "var was not declared in 
this scope":
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template <class T> void doit( T var ) {
    struct st { int i; char s[sizeof(var)]; } zz;
}

int main() { doit(3); }


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy program from description
2. compile using g++
3.
	

Actual Results:  bug1.cc: In instantiation of `doit (T) [with T = int]::st':
bug1.cc:4:   instantiated from `doit (T) [with T = int]'
bug1.cc:9:   instantiated from here
bug1.cc:4: `var' was not declared in this scope


Expected Results:  Variable var is a "doit" function parameter.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Alan Cox 2002-12-15 21:38:10 UTC 
verified stil true in g++ 3.2
Comment 2 Richard Henderson 2004-10-02 20:57:40 UTC 
Fixed during the 3.4 release cycle.  Fails in 3.4 20030425,
fixed in 3.4.3 20041001.