Re: [Boost-users] supressing "extra ;" warnings with GCC 3.4

From: Gen Zhang (genneth_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-30 11:31:13

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 08:30 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> Dave Steffen <dgsteffen_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> >  I claim that our macros and use thereof is A) correct and B) safe.
> >  It just so happens that these macro constructs occasionally expand to
> >  something that has an extra semicolon, which triggers a warning in
> >  GCC 3.4 that we haven't seen before.  
> 
> The warning will be an error on other compilers.  The semicolons
> aren't just "bad style;" they're illegal.

I believe The Book specifically allows an optional semicolon at the end
of a function declaration in the global scope. They are illegal in a
class. And necessary at the end of a class/struct definition. I have a
friend who runs into this problem a lot. :D

Gen