Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!columbia!garfield.columbia.edu!eppstein From: eppstein@garfield.columbia.edu (David Eppstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Bug in automatic type conversion? Message-ID: <5192@columbia.edu> Date: 14 Dec 87 19:34:37 GMT Sender: nobody@columbia.edu Organization: Columbia University CS Department Lines: 40 I want to use automatic conversion of a certain class to strings, but it seems to screw up other stuff around it. This is in #ident "@(#)cfront:CC 1.11" and the error messages generated in the following program are: CC test.c: "test.c", line 23: error: two initializers for baz() argument x "test.c", line 23: error: bad initializer type const_char_star for x ( int expected) 2 errors The program itself: ------------ ------------ typedef const char * const_char_star; class string { public: const char * p; operator const_char_star() { return p; } }; int strlen(const char *); int baz(int = -1); int foo() { string bar; bar.p = "bar"; return strlen(bar); } int baz(int x = -1) { return x; } -- David Eppstein eppstein@garfield.columbia.edu Columbia U. Computer Science