I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE;
class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS
{
public:
int n;
DATE date;
};
class DATE
{
public:
int day;
int month;
int year;
};
int main(int argc, char* argv)
{
return 0;
}
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp
impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type
make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the file. Is
this just a stupidity of g++??
--
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Randy Yates <ya***@ieee.org > writes: I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the file. Is this just a stupidity of g++??
I forgot to add that if I switch the order of the class declarations
the error goes away. I shouldn't have to order class declarations
which have forward references in my files, just as I don't have to
order subroutines if they have prototype definitions.
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Randy Yates posted: I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
Rearrange it:
(Plus I corrected a typo, it should've been "argv[]")
class DATE
{
public:
int day;
int month;
int year;
};
class MYCLASS
{
public:
int n;
DATE date;
};
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
return 0;
}
-JKop
Randy Yates wrote: Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the file. Is this just a stupidity of g++??
Forward declaration allow only to declare pointer or references, to declare
an object of the class the complete declaration is required.
--
Salu2
"Randy Yates" <ya***@ieee.org > wrote in message
news:u0******** **@ieee.org... I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the f ile.Is this just a stupidity of g++??
C++ is no different from C in this regard. Replace class with struct, remove
'public:', and you'd have a C program and exactly the same error. You are a
C programmer, no?
In order to compile MYCLASS the compiler needs some basic information, such
as the size of each data member. It cannot get that from a forward
declaration.
class DATE;
class MYCLASS
{
public:
int n;
DATE* date;
};
This is OK because DATE* has a known size; but what you wrote is not because
the compiler does not know the size of DATE.
Suggest you simply reorder the classes.
john
Randy Yates wrote: I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the file. Is this just a stupidity of g++?? -- % Randy Yates % "Watching all the days go by... %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % Who are you and who am I?" %%% 919-577-9882 % 'Mission (A World Record)', %%%% <ya***@ieee.org > % *A New World Record*, ELO http://home.earthlink.net/~yatescr
when the compiler is compiling 'myclass' it runs into a forward declared reference to 'date'. However, while date is known to
exist, the compiler does not know anything about it, such as size or layout. But at this phase of the compilation process, the
compiler needs to know at *least* the size, and possibly more so that it can complete the declaration of myclass. That means that
to use date here, you had to have previously done more than forward declaring it.
The forward declarations are primarily used to declare types that are going to be used as pointer references
in subsequent classes, this way you can have classes that point to each other in a circular fashion.
David
"John Harrison" <jo************ *@hotmail.com> writes: "Randy Yates" <ya***@ieee.org > wrote in message news:u0******** **@ieee.org... I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the f ile.Is this just a stupidity of g++??
C++ is no different from C in this regard. Replace class with struct, remove 'public:', and you'd have a C program and exactly the same error. You are a C programmer, no?
Yes, and structure definitions have no such thing as a "forward reference," and
if they did I'd be asking the same question.
If a forward reference isn't good for this, then what is it good for?
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"Randy Yates" <ya***@ieee.org > wrote in message
news:3c******** **@ieee.org... "John Harrison" <jo************ *@hotmail.com> writes:
"Randy Yates" <ya***@ieee.org > wrote in message news:u0******** **@ieee.org... I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the f
ile.Is this just a stupidity of g++?? C++ is no different from C in this regard. Replace class with struct,
remove 'public:', and you'd have a C program and exactly the same error. You
are a C programmer, no?
Yes, and structure definitions have no such thing as a "forward
reference,"
Nor do class definitions. But in C, yes a forward reference to
a struct can indeed be declared.
The following is valid C (as well as C++):
struct x; /* forward declare type 'struct x' */
struct x *p; /* define a pointer to type 'struct x' */
/* (but an actual object of type 'struct x' cannot be
created until after type 'struct x' is completely defined) */
struct x s; /* invalid */
/* fully define type 'struct x' */
struct x
{
int a;
};
struct x s2; /* valid */
and if they did I'd be asking the same question.
If a forward reference isn't good for this, then what is it good for?
For defining a pointer (or reference in C++) to a struct or class which
has yet to be defined.
This issue works exactly the same way in C as in C++
-Mike
>> C++ is no different from C in this regard. Replace class with struct, remove 'public:', and you'd have a C program and exactly the same error. You are a C programmer, no? Yes, and structure definitions have no such thing as a "forward reference," and if they did I'd be asking the same question.
Not true.
struct Node;
That is perfectly good C and C++.
If a forward reference isn't good for this, then what is it good for?
It tells the compiler that a name is the name of a class (or struct). You
can do a few things with just a name, for instance you can declare a pointer
or a reference. For instance
struct Node;
class List
{
public:
void add_node(Node*) ;
void remove_node(Nod e*);
};
John
Thanks David, John, and Mike. I guess I see the point now, but
I don't see why the compiler couldn't have been designed to
forward scan the file and pick up that information without
the user having to go through these hoops - something like
a "two-pass" compiler design.
--RY
David Lindauer <ca*****@bluegr ass.net> writes: Randy Yates wrote:
I'm having a problem with forward references.
For example,
class DATE; class MYCLASS;
class MYCLASS { public: int n; DATE date; };
class DATE { public: int day; int month; int year; };
int main(int argc, char* argv) { return 0; }
results in
g++ -c -DTARGET_PC -Wall -g -I /. -I /mingw/include/ -I /devstudio/vc/include -o ./pc/impmain.o -Wno-deprecated impmain.cpp impmain.cpp:8: field `date' has incomplete type make: *** [pc/impmain.o] Error 1
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 16 12:54:27
Why? I've declared the forward reference at the beginning of the file. Is this just a stupidity of g++?? -- % Randy Yates % "Watching all the days go by... %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % Who are you and who am I?" %%% 919-577-9882 % 'Mission (A World Record)', %%%% <ya***@ieee.org > % *A New World Record*, ELO http://home.earthlink.net/~yatescr
when the compiler is compiling 'myclass' it runs into a forward declared reference to 'date'. However, while date is known to exist, the compiler does not know anything about it, such as size or layout. But at this phase of the compilation process, the compiler needs to know at *least* the size, and possibly more so that it can complete the declaration of myclass. That means that to use date here, you had to have previously done more than forward declaring it.
The forward declarations are primarily used to declare types that are going to be used as pointer references in subsequent classes, this way you can have classes that point to each other in a circular fashion.
David
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