[OpenIndiana-discuss] weird C++ problem

[Ian Collins]

Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I was trying to compile a program and one file failed to compile
> with g++ 4.7.2 but it compiles with CC: Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_i386 2011/11/16.
>
> The following little program reproduces the error I got initially:
>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <string>
> using namespace std;
>      namespace KPS {
>          extern "C" {
>              #include <string.h> //it includes another header that eventually
>          }                       // included this header.
>      }
>      using namespace KPS;
>
> int main() {
>    std::string x;
>    string y = "abcdef";
>    cout << y << endl;
> }

What options did you pass to the compiler?  The snippet compiles fine 
with gcc 4.5.2 (Solaris 11) and 4.6.2 (SmartOS).

-- 
Ian.