Re: Is this correct C++?

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:10:25 CST
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On 16 Okt., 02:15, Gerasimos Karvounis <Gerasimos.Karvou...@gmx.de>
wrote:

today I was searching for over an hour for the reason of a compiler
error after a change I made (finally I found it). That was really a
strange error! I do not know, if the "original" code was legal C++.

Here an example:

class A {
        public:
                A(), // Notice the comma instead of a semicolon!
                A(int i);
        private:
                int mValue;
};

class __declspec(dllexport) B {
        public:
                B();
                B(int i);

        private:
                int mValue;

};

A::A()
: mValue(0)
{
        std::cout << "A's default constructor called!" << std::endl;}

A::A(int i)
: mValue(i)
{
        std::cout << "A's int-constructor called!" << std::endl;

}

B::B()
: mValue(0)
{
        std::cout << "B's default constructor called!" << std::endl;}

B::B(int i)
: mValue(i)
{
        std::cout << "B's int-constructor called!" << std::endl;

}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        A a1;
        A a2(2);

        B b1;
        B b2(2);

        return 0;

}

This compiles fine under VC++2005 although A's default constructor
declaration is terminated with a comma (is the comma operator allowed
here???).


This is no comma operator, it is a comma that is part of a sequence
of declarations. Except for a situation where name hiding occurs the
sequence

T D1, D2, ... Dn;

is equivalent to

T D1; T D2; ... T Dn;

see [dcl.decl].

But, if I change the declaration of B into:

class __declspec(dllexport) B {
        public:
                B(), // Notice the comma instead of a semicolon!
                B(int i);
        private:
                int mValue;
};

Then my compiler reports error C2487: member of dll interface class may
not be declared with dll interface

So my questions are:
1. Is "terminating" comma in a class constructor declaration legal?


Yes, if it is part of a declaration sequence.

2. Is it a compiler bug?


It's hard to say, because __declspec is a non-standard
component. In which way it interferes with the declaration
sequence is out of the scope of the standard.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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