Re: Why this does not compile on g++ but works in Visual C++ 2008

From:
Jonathan Lee <jonathan.lee.975@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:35:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<fdfaa33d-930e-4f76-892d-9fa650fe336d@r27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 9, 7:25 pm, Jag <jag...@gmail.com> wrote:

virtex<T>* add_a_virtex(const virtex<T>& v1) {
     //set<virtex<T> > _vertices ;
     pair<set<virtex<T> >::iterator,bool> itt = _vertices.insert(=

v1) ;

     /* code removed below */}

on g++ I get this error.

sgraph.h: In member function `virtex<T>* sgraph<T>::add_a_virtex(const
virtex<T>&)':
sgraph.h:95: error: type/value mismatch at argument 1 in template
parameter list for `template<class _T1, class _T2> struct std::pair'
sgraph.h:95: error: expected a type, got `
std::set<virtex<T>,std::less<virtex<T> >,std::allocator<virtex<T> >>::ite=

rator'

You probably just need "typename", like:
  pair< typename set< virtex<T> >::iterator, bool> itt = ...;

Assuming T is the template parameter, when GCC first comes across
this it can't know that "iterator" is a type. It could be,
in theory, a static data member named "iterator". The keyword
"typename" tells the compiler you know what you're doing.

--Jonathan

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