From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Apr 18 12:28:38 2001
Subject: [patch] small tweaks for ISO C++ compliance, Sun C++ bug
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:28:29 -0500

On  9-Apr-2001, Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU> wrote:

| Two simple tweaks
| 
| - ISO C++ does not require an operator+ for streampos or fpos<charT> and
|   an integral type [ See 27.4.3.2/1 for fpos<charT> requirements ]. The 
|   following testcase shows what the problem is:
| 
|     #include <ios>
| 
|     void
|     foo()
|     {
|       std::streampos pos;
|       long foo1;
|       int foo2;					// FOUR_BYTE_INT
| 
|       pos + foo1;				// OK
|       pos + foo2;				// not OK, ambiguous
|       pos + static_cast<std::streamoff> (foo2);	// OK
|     }
|   
|   This problem will show up using gcc versions >= -3.0.
| 
| - DLD-FUNCTIONS/det.cc runs into a bug in Sun Workshop compilers --
|   no default conversion for the arguments of ?: operator.
| 
| Patch against current CVS tree.

I applied your patch.

Thanks,

jwe