Re: static_pointer_cast not declared in this scope

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 22 May 2007 07:50:53 +0200
Message-ID:
<5bfem2F2rp5i0U1@mid.individual.net>
* Tim H:

help?!?

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
class pp_dirent {};
class pp_scope: public pp_dirent {};

int main() {
    boost::shared_ptr<pp_dirent> p1(new pp_scope());
    boost::shared_ptr<pp_scope> p2 =
static_pointer_cast<pp_scope>(p1);
    return 0;
}

g++ test.cpp -o test
test.cpp: In function int main():


You have an error in function 'main'.

test.cpp:8: error: static_pointer_cast was not declared in this scope


It was that 'static_pointer' was not used but haven't been declared.
Perhaps you meant something like 'boost::static_pointer_cast'.

test.cpp:8: error: expected primary-expression before > token


And at the point of detecting that, the compiler had parsed your code as
far as the latest '>' token on line 8, where it expected a primary
expression, not some undeclared name.

What?


What what?

Just read the compiler's diagnostic messages.

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