[cfe-dev] Friend functions default parameters behavior

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 24/07/2014 03:44, Nikola Smiljanic wrote:
> This is taken from clang source at the point where the error is emitted:
>
> // C++11 [dcl.fct.default]p4: If a friend declaration specifies a
> // default argument expression, that declaration shall be a definition
> // and shall be the only declaration of the function or function
> // template in the translation unit.
>
> Not sure how wide spread this construct is, I'm seeing it for the
> first time. The code is not hard to fix and error seems appropriate to me.
>
It is in the top 10 of the build failure in the Debian rebuilds. So, it
is not uncommon.
Should we report a bug on gcc to have it more strict here? (or is it
"only" C++11)

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