From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Thu Jul 21 12:47:56 1994
Subject: Compiling with gcc 2.6.0
From: przemek at rrdbartok dot nist dot gov (Przemek Klosowski)
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 13:48:18 -0400


Hi,

As the title advertises, I tried to compile Octave 1.0 with my spanking new
gcc 2.6.0 on Irix 5.2; however, I got these compilation errors:

f-hess.cc:132: call of overloaded constructor `tree_constant' is ambiguous
tree-const.h:561: candidates are: tree_constant::tree_constant(const Complex &)
tree-const.h:556:                 tree_constant::tree_constant(const ColumnVector &)
tree-const.h:552:                 tree_constant::tree_constant(const RowVector &)
	            ...... more candidates ....

f-hess.cc:132: in conversion to type `tree_constant'
f-hess.cc:148: call of overloaded constructor `tree_constant' is ambiguous
tree-const.h:561: candidates are: tree_constant::tree_constant(const Complex &)
tree-const.h:556:                 tree_constant::tree_constant(const ColumnVector &)
	            ...... more candidates ....

I managed to compile Octave with gcc 2.5.8. Is the above indicative of a bug
in gcc or of more strict checking in a new version of the compiler?


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