RE: [Mingw-users] Pointer initialisation

[Foster, G. <gar...@si...>]

> What return type did you intend? C++ has no 'implicit int'.
> 

It was sort of supposed to be a pseudo code example, I have based it on
actual code, it is mearly there to draw out the descrepancy between the two
compilers I mentioned.

Put another way, I quickly hacked up an example scenario, and forgot to
include the return type - probably because I had no intention of getting as
far as returning anything :)

So, without further ado ...

class something
{
};

class example
{
public:
	something * m_p_something;

	// constructor + other boilerplate ...

	int somemethod()
	{
		something * p_something(m_p_something);	// here cv ++ 6
complains that m_p_something is undeclared
									//
my suspicion is that this is a misleading warning
									//
the question is - is this legal c++ or a g++/mingw 'feature'

		something * p_otherthing = m_p_something;	// this
works fine on both g++/mingw and vc++ 6

		// do some stuff etc

		return 0;
	}
};

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
	example myExample;

	example.somemethod();

	return 0;
}