Re: compilation error... Am I missing anything?

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 17 May 2009 12:13:33 +0200
Message-ID:
<guoo48$b8a$1@news.eternal-september.org>
* smilesonisamal@gmail.com:

class A
{
   public:
       void SetA(EmployeeCategory a); // EmployeeCategory is a enum
and is already declared.


I wonder what made you decide that that declaration could be totally irrelevant?

       EmployeeCategory GetA() const;

private :
      EmployeeCategory m_emplCategory; // This is initialized in the
constructor

}

In .cpp file
--------------
   EmployeeCategory A::GetA() const
{
     return m_emplCategory;

}

Set function works fine. But when I try to return a value for enum I
get the following error:
error C2511: ' EmployeeCategory A::GetA() const' : overloaded member
function not found in 'A'

I dont understand why this problem comes.


Because at that point you don't have anything named EmployeeCategory.

The following code works:


No it does not.

A: GetA(EmployeeCategory *eCat)


Here you have a syntax error, hence the code cannot "work" in any sense.

{

   *eCat = m_emplCategory;

}

Is this a bug in the Visual Studio or I am missing anything?


The latter.

A few times. :-)

Summing up: you have decided to (A) *not* provide the relevant information for
your problem, namely the declaration of EmployeeCategory (but all right, we old
hands understand from the problem that it's within the class or a base class,
but you could not know that we'd be familiar with your problem) and you have
decided to (B) instead provide some *incorrect*, misleading information, which
is very very counter-productive: it simply doesn't make sense to try to send
those you ask for help, on a wild goose chase.

Is that intentional, or?

If it's not intentional, then please read the FAQ's guidelines on how to post
(Google for "C++ FAQ Lite").

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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