"reichelt at gcc dot gnu dot org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| The error message reads:
| 
|   bug.cc: In function 'void foo(const A<N>&) [with int N = 0]':
|   bug.cc:7:   instantiated from here
|   bug.cc:3: error: no match for 'operator-' in '-((const A<0>&)#'convert_expr'
| not supported by dump_expr#<expression error>)'
| 
| With gcc 4.0.0 I get the following message instead:
| 
|   bug.cc: In function 'void foo(const A<N>&) [with int N = 0]':
|   bug.cc:7:   instantiated from here
|   bug.cc:3: error: no match for 'operator-' in '-((const A<0>&)(+ a))'
| 
| I don't know why the plus sign appears before "a", 

The plus sign is a bogosity in the tree representation, not correctly
understaood by the pretty-printer, which cannot differentiate between
conversion from reference to pointer, lvalue->rvalue conversion and
real unary plus. They usually appear under the cover of CONVERT_EXPR.

| but this suggests that
| the regression is related to the recent introduction of UNARY_PLUS_EXPR:
| http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg02580.html

Indeed.

-- Gaby

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