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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - Member function pointer related error message could be improved"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17563">17563</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Member function pointer related error message could be improved
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>C++
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>cib123@googlemail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>dgregor@apple.com, llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=11366" name="attach_11366" title="Test case for error message">attachment 11366</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=11366&action=edit" title="Test case for error message">[details]</a></span>
Test case for error message

If you compile the attached file with "clang++ test.cpp", the error message is
this:

test.cpp:10:35: error: called object type 'void (Foo::*)()' is not a function
or function pointer

This confused me, since to someone who isn't a C++ expert, "member function
pointer" isn't fundamentally different from "function pointer". Could the error
message maybe be changed to check if the called thing is a member function
pointer, and if so, complain more specifically that the member function pointer
is being called directly, without first binding it to an instance?</pre>
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