expected unqualified-id before ‘int’

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class A {
   public:
      virtual ~A() {};
      virtual int emit(int t, void* a)=0;
};

template <class dest_type="">
class B : public A {
   public:
      typedef int (dest_type::*classpfn)(int, void*);
      B(dest_type* pclass, classpfn pfn) : p(pclass), fn(pfn) {};
      virtual int emit(int t, void* a) { return (p->*fn)(t, a); }
   private:
      dest_type *p;
      classpfn fn;
};

Output:
=======
abc.h:222: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘int’
abc.h:222: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’

Posted 26-Mar-12 4:49am

Charmy from bangalore

Updated 27-Mar-12 5:37am

Stefan_Lang

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Pablo Aliskevicius 26-Mar-12 11:12am

Which line is 222?
Are you using GCC?
What do you mean by <class dest_type="">? Shouldn't the default be a class name?

enhzflep 26-Mar-12 11:35am

Using gcc the messages are different and somewhat more helpful:

main.cpp|7|error: expected type-specifier before string constant
main.cpp|7|error: expected '>' before string constant
(line 7 is same as line 7 in above code snippet)

To fix, just remove the ="" from the 2nd class definition

Stefan_Lang 27-Mar-12 11:19am

I modified the question to again show the source code originally posted. Whoever modified that code to something different just served to confuse everyone else...

P.S.: I also voted to make up for that unjustified 1-vote. No idea why this was voted down, it is a totally legitimate question.

Stefan_Lang 27-Mar-12 11:39am

P.P.S.: modified it back to show
template <class dest_type="">

I was misled by the fact that viewing the original version did no show the last part - only viewing the differences from the first to the second revision let me see that the template argument list was actually there from the start ...

Stefan_Lang 27-Mar-12 11:51am

Sorry for the confusion, but it seems that your various responses were not printed correctly as the < and > symbols required to show the template argument was incorrectly rendered as a (unknown, and therefore ignored) HTML tag by this site.

The response in solution 1 is correct: you cannnot use an empty string to initialize a template argument of type class. I believe I have seen something like that elsewhere (maybe Java?), but in C++ this syntax is not possible. There is no 'empty' class.

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Fredrik Bornander · Answer 1 · 2012-03-26T05:34:00

Solution 1

This part template<class dest_type="">, looks weird to me, are you trying to set the default type dest_type to an empty string?

Try removing that so that you're left with template<class dest_type>.

Hope this helps,
Fredrik

Posted 26-Mar-12 5:34am

Fredrik Bornander

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Charmy from bangalore 26-Mar-12 11:55am

class A {
public:
virtual ~A() {};
virtual int emit(int t, void* a)=0;
};

template<class dest_type=""> //this is actual
class B : public A {
public:
typedef int (dest_type::*classpfn)(int, void*);
B(dest_type* pclass, classpfn pfn) : p(pclass), fn(pfn) {};
virtual int emit(int t, void* a) { return (p->*fn)(t, a); }
private:
dest_type *p;
classpfn fn;
};

Output:
=======
abc.h:222: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘int’
abc.h:222: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’
Iam getting error in these 2 lines
==================================
virtual int emit(int t, void* a)=0;
virtual int emit(int t, void* a) { return (p->*fn)(t, a); }

Charmy from bangalore 26-Mar-12 11:55am

Iam using g++ compiler

nv3 26-Mar-12 14:08pm

I replaced your line

template // this is actual

with

template< class dest_type="">

Then it compiles without error on VC++. Neither your original version (with dest_type="") nor the version in the comment of an hour ago do compile though. Please try that line and if you still get an error, specify precisely which line the compiler dislikes.

Charmy from bangalore 27-Mar-12 0:25am

class A {
public:
virtual ~A() {};
virtual int emit(int t, void* a)=0;
};
template<class dest_type="">
class B : public A {
public:
typedef int (dest_type::*classpfn)(int, void*);
B(dest_type* pclass, classpfn pfn) : p(pclass), fn(pfn) {};
virtual int emit(int t, void* a) {
return (p->*fn)(t, a);
}

Output:
=======
abc.h:222: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘int’
abc.h:222: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’
Iam getting error in these 2 lines in the function arguments
============================================================
virtual int emit(int t, void* a)=0;
virtual int emit(int t, void* a) { return (p->*fn)(t, a); }

Charmy from bangalore 27-Mar-12 0:29am

Iam getting error in these 2 lines in the function arguments ============================================================
virtual int emit(int t, void* a)=0;
virtual int emit(int t, void* a) { return (p->*fn)(t, a); }

Stefan_Lang 27-Mar-12 11:16am

The line

template

is likely the problem. The next character after this must be a < , followed by the template argument list, and then a >

Try this:

template <class dest_type>

nv3 27-Mar-12 5:55am

The compiler output is saying in both cases line 222, but the two lines you are showing in your last message are 8 lines apart. That is not consistent.

Also, I think we are loosing some characters in your program code that you did not escape properly. Please go to your original question and use the improve question button; then paste your C++ code in between <pre> tags. That makes sure that we see all characters, even the braces.

Stefan_Lang 27-Mar-12 11:20am

The line you rightfully object about was modified by someone else. I changed it back to the original.

Stefan_Lang 27-Mar-12 11:41am

P.S.: I apparently got it wrong. seems like inproper use (or interpretation) of HTML code got the better of me ...

Anyway, you're right, my 5.