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title="NEW --- - Error message when invoking a constructor not very helpful"
href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31806">31806</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Error message when invoking a constructor not very helpful
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<th>Product</th>
<td>clang
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<th>Version</th>
<td>trunk
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows NT
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>-New Bugs
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>douglas_yung@playstation.sony.com
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<th>CC</th>
<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<pre>Recently a change was in r292518 which (properly) caused the following code to
no longer compile:
class A {
public:
A(){}
~A(){}
};
A foo(){ return A::A(); }
Now if you try to build this code, the compiler emits the following error
message:
test3.cpp:6:20: error: qualified reference to 'A' is a constructor name rather
than a type in this context
A foo(){ return A::A(); }
The error message given here is not really clear as to what the problem is. By
comparison, the error given by GCC is much clearer:
test3.cpp: In function ‘A foo()’:
test3.cpp:6:22: error: cannot call constructor ‘A::A’ directly [-fpermissive]
A foo(){ return A::A(); }
^
test3.cpp:6:22: error: for a function-style cast, remove the redundant ‘::A’
[-fpermissive]
We should improve this error message.</pre>
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