Hello:

I discovered a behavior of the Digital Mars compiler that has me puzzled. The small program reproduced below compiles without error as a .c program but produces an error when compiled as a .cpp program, namely:

SC -cpp -r -Ae -Ar -Aa -mx -f -S -s -3 -a4 -c   -oFPTR2.obj FPTR2.cpp
int (*  t(int ix))(int *);
^
FPTR2.cpp(9) : Error: '(' expected following simple type name

The startling thing is that other compilers like DJ Delorie's DJGPP (ver 2.81), Borland's BC++4.5 (bcc -ml -3 -k -N fptr2.cpp), and even (alas) Microsoft's Visual C++ 4 compile this .cpp code without a complaint. I would be immensely appreciative if you would clarify if this is some new C++ language behavior or if this is some kind of bug.

Incidentally, replacing the declaration for the t-function with:
T  t(int ix);   //--FORWARD REFERENCE function prototype
where T is defined as:  typedef  int (*T)(int *k);
makes all the Digital Mars errors go away...

Thanks in advance for any assistance,

Stephen Zamoscianyk
byf9vh@cs.com

doh! you forgot the source =)

"Stephen Zamoscianyk" <Stephen_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:bga4g8$2usm$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hello:
>
> I discovered a behavior of the Digital Mars compiler that has me puzzled. The small program reproduced below compiles without error as a .c program but produces an error when compiled as a .cpp program, namely:
>
> SC -cpp -r -Ae -Ar -Aa -mx -f -S -s -3 -a4 -c   -oFPTR2.obj FPTR2.cpp
> int (*  t(int ix))(int *);
> ^
> FPTR2.cpp(9) : Error: '(' expected following simple type name
>
> The startling thing is that other compilers like DJ Delorie's DJGPP (ver
2.81),
> Borland's BC++4.5 (bcc -ml -3 -k -N fptr2.cpp), and even (alas)
Microsoft's
> Visual C++ 4 compile this .cpp code without a complaint. I would be
immensely
> appreciative if you would clarify if this is some new C++ language
behavior or
> if this is some kind of bug.
>
> Incidentally, replacing the declaration for the t-function with:
> T  t(int ix);   //--FORWARD REFERENCE function prototype
> where T is defined as:  typedef  int (*T)(int *k);
> makes all the Digital Mars errors go away...
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
>
> Stephen Zamoscianyk
> byf9vh@cs.com
>
>